University of Arkansas Press. 2025. 138 pages.There is nothing simple about explaining who Kurds are and what struggles they have survived. Furthermore, Kurdish literature has histori…
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Penguin Press. 2025. 128 pages.Growing up, my father instilled in me a love for the films of German filmmaker Werner Herzog, especially his beautiful earlier works with the infamous K…
Red Hen Press. 2025. 181 pages.At the heart of Adrianne Kalfopoulou’s The re in refuge is the experience of crossing borders—primarily international, cultural, and l…
Canongate Books. 2025. 288 pages.“Human civilization,” David Farrier tells us in the opening pages of his book, “is now the world’s greatest evolutionary force.” Looking at the impact…
W.W. Norton. 2025. 334 pages.Christopher Marlowe, son of a cobbler, obtained an MA from Cambridge through the political intervention of the Privy Council, gave up studies for the prie…
Cambridge University Press. 2025. 322 pages.For anyone who has ever wondered where dictionaries come from, Ilan Stavans’s Conversations on Dictionaries: The Universe in a Book…
Graywolf Press. 2026. 264 pages.Pulitzer Prize–winning author Cristina Rivera Garza desperately wants to paint for us the tortured lives of her grandparents and great-grandparents who…
Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales. 2025. 336 pages.For over twenty years, Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales has been publishing not only the finest works of Chilean literature—p…
Alfaguara. 2025. 224 pages.Héctor Abad Faciolince’s latest book is a personal account of the author’s firsthand experience in the war between Russia and Ukraine. On June 27, 2023, a m…
Other Press. 2025. 240 pages.If you know anything about the history of Israel/Palestine, you know that one of the first things that happened after the creation of the new state of Isr…
Fantagraphics Books. 2025. 232 pages.Grief is common and yet unique—it happens to everyone and yet is never experienced in the same manner. Imagine how difficult it is to capture the…
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2025. 440 pages.At the start of this fascinating and sumptuously illustrated book, Adam Nicolson admits that, with the exception of seabirds—an early love…
Prototype. 2025. 280 pages.Over the past three years, English-language readers have enjoyed an increase in the number of single-authored publications by literary translators on transl…
Penguin Books. 2025. 208 pages.“The concept of apurnata (incompleteness) cannot be understood without recognizing the significance of ‘a.’ . . . In…
Scribner. 2025. 352 pages.I don’t know if my conflicted feelings about my mother would have ever found language had I not discovered mother-daughter memoirs unflinchingly exploring th…
Metropolitan Books. 2025. 144 pages.In September 2013 a riot raged through the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, claiming over dozens of lives and injuring hundreds more. Journalist-cart…
DoppelHouse Press. 2025. 278 pages.Some books arrive as testimonies, others as warnings. Hadi Abdullah’s Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution is both: the S…
Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2024. 344 pages.Matthew Kilbane’s The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media explores the intersections of lyric poetry and evolving techno…
Trans. Martha Kuhlman. University Park, Pennsylvania. Graphic Mundi. 2025. 231 pages.Ever since the publication of the first volume of Art Spiegelman’s Maus in 1986, the grap…
Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 2024. 857 pages.In a study of the essay published over a century before this one, Hugh Walker’s The English Essay and Essayists (1915),…
Abiquiú, New Mexico. Casa Urraca Press. 2025. 96 pages.The book Hearts in Motion, Hearts in Place: The Quest for Querencias on Turtle Island and Abya Yala, by border…
New York. Bloomsbury Academic. 2025. 184 pages.There’s a peculiar electricity in reading Suzanne Jill Levine’s new memoir when you, too, are a translator of Latin American prose. For…
New York. Riverhead Books. 2025. 240 pages.The travel writer Pico Iyer broaches the paradox of learning from silence even while traveling. In Aflame: Learning from Silence, I…
New York. Liveright. 2025. 144 pages.There is no word for the color blue in the isiXhosa language. This is interesting but not important—for millennia, isiXhosa speakers have lived on…
New York. New Press. 2025. 224 pages.Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas is a collection of essays authored by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938–2025) that intricately…