New York. Bloomsbury Academic. 2024. 235 pages.Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction is an unusually fascinating book that explores and interrogates Afro-centere…
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Buenos Aires. Blatt & Ríos. 2024. 111 pages.Ours is a good time to think about how novelists expand their ideas. Various Latin Americans of different backgrounds…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2024. 852 pages.The virtues of this authoritative biography of Christopher Isherwood are clear enough. Katherine Bucknell, who edited the great ga…
Paris. Éditions Gallimard. 2024. 73 pages.Within the scene of French letters, Philippe Sollers is an heir to Maurice Blanchot: the standout literary voice in constant communication wi…
Vancouver. Arsenal Pulp Press. 2024. 272 pages.Seven segments titled Niizhoziibean, Anishinaabemowin for “two rivers,” are interspersed through Métis writer Andrea Currie’s memoir. Re…
Huntsville, Texas. Texas Review Press. 2024. 325 pages.“Pour the rose petals / draw close and cosmic / move with me,” concludes a poem inviting artist Ponce to participate in one of G…
Athens. Vine Leaves Press. 2024. 305 pages.Landed can be read as the sequel to the author’s powerful debut, Places We Left Behind: A Memoir-in-Miniature…
Grass Valley, California. Fieldmouse Press. 2024. 244 pages.In this color-drenched graphic memoir reminiscent of the dreaminess of Chagall, Jesse Lee Kercheval has moved the genre to…
Paris. Editions Stock. 2024. 304 pages.Who would have thought that Alina Gurdiel’s idea to put a Japanese tradition on its head would have such editorial success? Her “Ma nuit au musé…
New York. Union Square. 2024. 432 pages.In 1928 Memphis resident David Shainberg moved to Hebron, the city of Abraham, in British Mandatory Palestine. The area was dotted with citrus,…
Beijing. Beijing Daily Press. 2024. 189 pages.Mo Yan, as a representative figure of contemporary Chinese literature, has garnered widespread attention and recognition for his works gl…
New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2024. 352 pages.Scribe. 2025. 480 pages.Sumana Roy is an Indian poet, novelist, nonfiction writer, and faculty member in the English dep…
New York. Knopf. 2024. 288 pages. Richard Flanagan begins his latest book by visiting a coal mine where Japanese soldiers interned his father during World War II. There, he finds, “n…
Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2024. 139 pages. Edwidge Danticat’s collection of essays We’re Alone was released a few months before the members of the Haitian diaspora in the United S…
Berkeley, California. Transit Books. 2024. 48 pages. “For his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” was the official rationale the Swedish Academy gave for aw…
Cambridge, UK. Cambridge University Press. 2024. 718 pages. The scale of what’s being attempted here is impressive. As Christy Wampole puts it, “the volume spans roughly 310 years an…
New York. Viking. 2024. 304 pages. What does it mean to grow up queer in a society that devalues who you are through politics, social norms, and family structures? It’s a question th…
Paris. Gallimard. 2023. 192 pages.176 pages. Opening with the query “Qui est Colette?”, this work examines French author Colette’s journey of self-creation, starting from her given n…
Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton University Press. 2023. 408 pages. The first half of the twentieth century was a difficult period for moral and political philosophy, as dominant cur…
Tucson. University of Arizona Press. 2023. 362 pages. Chicana Portraits is a powerful examination of the impetus and pilots behind the phenomenon of Chicana literature. Today it is w…
Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press. 2024. 197 pages. History grows on solid, settled ground. Migration, relocation, and displacement leave transitory imprints but virtually n…
New Haven. Yale University Press. 2024. 77 pages. Natasha Trethewey’s The House of Being, based on her 2022 Windham Campbell Lecture, packs a powerful literary punch to the body poli…
New York. Other Press. 2024. 272 pages. In his first autobiographical work, Water on Fire, Tarek El-Ariss invites us into his world at a moment of profound personal crisis. After yea…
Toronto. Guernica Editions. 2023. 121 pages. Marina Sonkina’s Ukrainian Portraits: Diaries from the Border follows the Russo-Ukrainian War’s initial days, when thousands of ref…
Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2024. 133 pages. The groundbreaking novels and incisive cultural critiques of Dubravka Ugrešić have won major prizes in eastern Europe and the West…