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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- Paris. Gallimard. 2022. 208 pages. Born in Kolkata, India, in 1973, Shumona Sinha started studying French fairly late, at the age of twenty-two. She moved to France six years later, i…
- Cambridge, UK. Polity Press. 2023. 225 pages. Today, confessional memoirs often hail from the margins of religious experience. With Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss (2013), it is tha…
- New York. Bloomsbury Academic. 2023 (©2022). 253 pages. With an international team of academics, translators, linguists, and poets, Piotr Florczyk and K. A. Wisniewski put the spotlight on authors, pu…
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- Beijing. Peking University Press. 2023. 334 pages. To remind himself of the paramount importance of the philosophical tradition of Confucianism, the ancient Chinese Shang Dynasty’s e…
- New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2023. 258 pages. “New Experiences slipped through his fingers like grains of sand, never to be touched again.” My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Al…
- New York. Flatiron Books. 2023. 304 pages. To many, mathematics is quite separate from literature; however, that is very far from reality. Mathematics has remained an indispensable pa…
- Paris. Grasset. 2023. 256 pages. Born in Haiti in 1953, Dany Laferrière has been living abroad since 1976, mostly in Quebec, but also in Florida and in France. His first novel, How to…
- Mexico City. Penguin Random House. 2022. 647 pages. Bursting with intelligence and information, this compilation by the prolific cultural critic and intellectual Christopher Domínguez Michael is a vad…
- Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2022. 240 pages. Groundglass is a lyric essay collection through which Kathryn Savage grapples with the idea of home and belonging in a world where we…