Toronto. House of Anansi. 2022. 200 pages.
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New York. Amistad. 2022. 368 pages. SHORTLY AFTER THE publication of Miss Chloe, a graduate student sent me an unsolicited text message exclaiming, “So far I am 21 pages int…
New York. Other Press. 2023. 432 pages. PUBLISHED IN FRANCE in 1999, Nicolas Delalande’s Struggle and Mutual Aid is a mainly Eurocentric study of the International Workingmen…
Montreal. Drawn & Quarterly. 2022. 430 pages. IN THE FIRST two frames of Ducks, Kate Beaton introduces herself as the protagonist of this very personal and profoundly mo…
Oxfordshire, UK. Routledge. 2022. 238 pages. USING AN APPROACH that empowers students by fostering their hidden constructions of mathematics structures, The Psychology of Mathemat…
London. Chelsea Green. 2022. 214 pages. MATTIAS DESMET IS professor of psychology at the University of Ghent (Belgium). He is well known in academic circles for his research on fraud…
Urbana. University of Illinois Press. 2021. 316 pages. DURING ROUGHLY THE first half of the twentieth century, the literature of the fantastic in English was subdivided into well-deli…
Evanston. Northwestern University Press. 2022. 134 pages. FROM BOETHIUS’S The Consolation of Philosophy to Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom, the history of pris…
Madrid. Alfaguara. 2022. 320 pages. THROUGHOUT HIS outstanding career as a fiction writer, Mario Vargas Llosa has also distinguished himself as a notable literary critic. His books on…
New York. Austin Macauley. 2021. 331 pages. I REREAD Domnica Radulescu’s memoir, Dream in a Suitcase, after I returned from a weekend trip to Slovakia. There, in a train stat…
Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Press. 2022. 234 pages. THIS VISUALLY STUNNING collection of photographs and essays presents readers with an unsettling view of the moment in time in w…
Seattle. Sublunary Editions. 2022. 124 pages. AS A NOVELIST, Pierre Senges is generally published by Verticales, one of the two mainstream purveyors of experimental French writing. Se…
New York. Pantheon. 2022. 512 pages. CIVIL RIGHTS QUEEN begins with a provocative poem, written by a fifteen-year-old Constance Juanita Baker, that questions the injustice sh…
White River Junction, Vermont. Chelsea Green. 2022. 208 pages. THE MUSKY BREATH of the Polish bison bulls, cloudy in the cool green thicket of the deciduous understory, is a difficult…
Chicago. Haymarket Books. 2022. 328 pages. EDITED BY CAITS MEISSNER, current director of the PEN America Prison and Justice Writing Program, The Sentences That Create Us is a…
New York. New Press. 2022. 352 pages. THE TEXTILE MILLS in England were key to the development of the Industrial Revolution. Commonly left out of the picture was the crucial component…
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 2022. 208 pages. JHUMPA LAHIRI’S CAREER as a writer has defied conventional expectations. Having achieved critical acclaim as a South Asian Amer…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2022. 335 pages. MANY PEOPLE HAVE written about mental crises—one thinks of Dostoevsky, Gogol, Stevenson, Waugh, Plath, and Styron, for instance—b…
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 2022. 160 pages. MARTIN PUCHNER’S Literature for a Changing Planet is an urgent call for rereading the stories that have shaped our wor…
Illus. Édouard Glissant. New York. Isolarii. 2021. 220 pages. THE ARCHIPELAGO CONVERSATIONS or, alternatively, Archipelago, is a unique little book focusing on Mart…
Belfast. The Blackstaff Press. 2021. 346 pages. WAR PHOTOGRAPHER Robert Capa famously said, “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.” The outstanding quality of…
San Francisco. Two Lines Press. 2021. 344 pages. AS HAS BEEN said before in various contexts, Brazil is a nation of continental proportions and of equally vast contradictions, and thi…
Brooklyn. Archipelago Books. 2021. 144 pages. BIRTHED IN THE brothels of Buenos Aires, and now heralded as emblematic of Argentine culture, the tango evolved from a fusion of the can…
London. DK. 2021. 227 pages. WHY SHOULD JUST this book on climate change science and preemptive policies merit a review in a literature magazine? There are so many, and only…
New York. Europa Editions. 2022. 112 pages. ELENA FERRANTE’S NEW book, In the Margins, is an exciting reading experience reminiscent of captivating nonfictional works such as…