Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Ruth Diver
The holy resilience of Gisèle Pelicot
A Hymn to Life is not a religious book. When asked if she believes in God, Gisèle Pelicot answers, “No, I believe in forces that are bigger than us, but not in a God.” The memoir, written by the survivor of one of the worst sexual abuse crimes imaginable, contains no theology of suffering, no account of divine providence, no attempt to explain the evil that was done to her.
A Hymn to Life by Gisèle Pelicot: 9798217181322
ISBN9798217181322 Published onFeb 17, 2026 Published byPenguin Press Pages256 Dimensions6-1/8 x 9-1/4 Gisèle Pelicot was named as the most noteworthy person of 2024 in an opinion poll in France, eclipsing world leaders, and was honored by Time. To mark International Women’s Day, The Independent named her the most influential woman of 2025. She was recently awarded the Legion of Honor, France’s highest civic honor.
The Dream of the Jaguar
5 Wat vind je van dit boek? Geef jouw beoordeling. 1 0 0 0 0 Willen dit boek lezen 0 Lezen dit boek 0 Hebben dit boek gelezen 1 De Nederlandse Boekenbon is supporter van lezerscommunity Hebban
What’s New in Translation: August 2021
The speed by which text travels is both a great fortune and a conundrum of our present days. As information and knowledge are transmitted in unthinkable immediacy, our capacity for receiving and comprehending worldly events is continuously challenged and reconstituted. It is, then, a great privilege to be able to sit down with a book that coherently and absorbingly sorts through the things that have happened.
The weight of motherhood, disappearance before death, Beirut burning, and grief baking...
Welcome back to Memoir Monday—a weekly newsletter and a quarterly reading series, brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus, Catapult, Granta, Guernica, and Literary Hub. Each personal essay in this newsletter has been selected by the editors at the above publications as the best of the week, delivered to you all in one place. We’re considering ways to expand aspects of this newsletter in the near future.
Beirut 2020: Diary of the Collapse
Photo and illustration by Samer Mohdad. July 11 I first thought that the sudden disappearance of all those anti-mosquito coils you burn to get rid of insects was linked to the general shortages in the supermarkets. Then Nayla made me realize that it probably had more to do with the fact that it was impossible for many households to use the usual devices that you plug into a power socket, since there is hardly ever any electricity at all in many neighborhoods, especially at night.
Beirut 2020: Diary of the Collapse
Lebanon: The Lessons of Complexity During a stay in Beirut for a writer’s residency, a French author once declared that Lebanon condensed and summarized in itself all the problems of the modern world, and that if only one of these problems could be resolved in Lebanon, it could then serve as a model solution for the rest of the planet.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Ruth
Contact Ruth, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack