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…
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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…
New York. New Directions. 2025. 96 pages.It’s a strange feeling, encountering an item from yesteryear. We have all had the experience of happening upon an abandoned telephone booth, f…
New York. W. W. Norton. 2025. 384 pages.Across the globe, our cities struggle perennially with routine waterlogging and catastrophic floods, the result of several limitations in the s…
Barcelona. Tusquets Editores. 2023. 752 pages.With the late Javier Marías, Javier Cercas and Enrique Vila-Matas—both relentless nonfiction writers—are the leading contemporary Spanish…
New York. Apollo. 2025. 502 pages.Adam LeBor is the author of several thrillers set in Budapest, where he served for many years as the correspondent for such English newspapers as…
New York. New Directions. 2025. 192 pages.In the witty and curious essays collected in Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, Yoko Tawada examines the deep roots and di…
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Wiseblood Books. 2024. 76 pages.Tightly argued and curiously poignant, James Matthew Wilson’s monograph on the life and work of John Martin Finlay opens a previo…
Oxford, UK. Oxford University Press. 2024. 144 pages.Heather Clark’s mission in her second and considerably more compact study of the poet Sylvia Plath’s life and work remains the sam…