In the political theorist’s genre-bending book on Albania and historical memory, Indignity, she interrogates how much one family can be implicated in a country’s becoming. The narrator of Lea Ypi’s ...

“Indignity,” by Lea Ypi, is a memoir, biography and imagined history prompted by a viral family photograph. By Elizabeth Graver Elizabeth Graver’s latest book, “Kantika,” is a novel inspired by the ...

In February, 2020, the Albanian-British philosopher Lea Ypi found herself in a closet trying to write a book about freedom. Ypi, who is a professor of political theory at the London School of ...

Asllan and Leman Ypi on their honeymoon in 1941. Lea Ypi's discovery of the photo of her grandparents on Facebook led to her new book, "Indignity." (Courtesy of Lea Ypi) Review by Becca Rothfeld One ...

Lea Ypi rose to fame with the publication of her coming-of-age memoir, titled Free, in 2021. Since then, the book has been translated into more than 30 languages and continues to serve as a must-read ...