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New York. HarperCollins. 2023. 312 pages. City on Fire is an account of the journalist-author’s formative years in the ghetto of a famous university town in Uttar Pradesh (India’s mos…
New York. Routledge. 2023. 129 pages. In Female Playwrights and Applied Intersectionality in Romanian Theater, Cătălina Florina Florescu offers an invaluable addition to current theat…
New York. Other Press. 2024. 320 pages. Among the nearly ten thousand Palestinians jailed in Israeli prisons, the poet Nasser Abu Srour has remained behind bars since 1993. In the las…
New York. Random House. 2024. 224 pages. Knife is the highly anticipated autobiographical account of Salman Rushdie’s experience of being stabbed onstage just when he was about to del…
Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2024. 226 pages. A recent Parisian exhibit about the pre-impressionists revealed that before painting techniques changed, artists abandoned heroic subjects and et…
Paris. Gallimard. 2023. 160 pages. In 1953 a young Swiss writer named Nicolas Bouvier and an equally young Swiss painter named Thierry Vernet began a long road trip that would eventua…
Brooklyn. Archipelago Books. 2024. 240 pages. “When spring arrives in the north and swallows migrate northward, North American professors migrate down here,” explains Hebe Uhart at th…
New York. Pegasus Books. 2024. 496 pages. The Egyptian city of Alexandria, the “mermaid of the Mediterranean,” has long been overdue for a thorough history. It makes a difference that…
New York. Penguin Press. 2023. 416 pages. German American political scientist and founder of the publication Persuasion, Yascha Mounk’s steady rise to fame and presence in public deba…
New York. Routledge. 2023. 262 pages. Futurism and the African Imagination is a must-read and a welcome addition to books of recent scholarship on African literature and other arts t…
Montreal. Drawn & Quarterly. 2024. 268 pages. Montreal-based artist Julie Delporte has made a name for herself with a body of graphic memoirs drawn in her signature colored-penci…
Hamilton, Ontario. Wolsak & Wynn. 2023. 172 pages. Writer, academic, and painter Mariam Pirbhai presents a unique take on a settlement story in this collection of essays. By explo…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2024. 345 pages. One of Walter Benjamin’s haunting statements from the Critique of Violence runs as follows: “Mythic violence is blood-violence ov…
New York. New York Review Books. 2023. 216 pages. It would be easy to jump to the wrong conclusion about a book like this one, which is made up of a writer’s collected blogs. What’s w…
London. Canongate Books. 2023. 256 pages. At some point, you may have traveled or lived in Asia and noticed in a particular neighborhood or area that there’s a significant number of A…
New York. Mariner Books. 2023. 288 pages. For any essay lover, a highlight of the literary calendar is the publication of the year’s Best American Essays volume. The 2023 edition is t…
London. Palgrave Macmillan. 2023. 318 pages. Tanure Ojaide’s new book has an attention-grabbing title. One cannot escape the depth of scholarship and literary criticism explored in t…
Toronto. Trace Press. 2023. 223 pages. Most of the collections of translation essays I’ve come across, including those that were key to my development as a translator—such as The Craf…
New York. First Second. 2023. 240 pages. 2023. 182 pages. Thien Pham’s memoir joins a growing body of works about the Vietnamese diaspora in graphic novel form. A gentle, complex narr…
New York. Restless Books. 2023. 272 pages. In Ani Gjika’s debut memoir, An Unruled Body, the reader is invited to think about translation as an experience of the body, a corporeal car…
Seattle. Amazon Crossing. 2023. 269 pages. Paula Ramón’s most cherished childhood memories include stories from her Spanish father, a man twenty-five years older than her mother and a…
Illus. Chris Maynard. Northampton, Massachusetts. Orion Magazine. 2023. 176 pages. It will come as no surprise to readers of Orion, the publishers of this volume, that a book which dr…
New York. Bloomsbury Academic. 2022. 280 pages.152 pages. Understanding what it means to be well and how to take care of our well-being is a common motif found in both life and litera…
New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2024. 152 pages. Fifty-nine-year-old Éric Chevillard is revered in France as one of its most original postmodernist authors. He has publ…