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…
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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…
Bogotá. Planeta/UASB. 2023. 420 pages. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Latin American novelists were a constant presence in the press, thereby acquiring prominence as…
New York. HarperCollins. 2023. 312 pages. City on Fire is an account of the journalist-author’s formative years in the ghetto of a famous university town in Uttar Pradesh (India’s mo…
New York. Routledge. 2023. 129 pages. In Female Playwrights and Applied Intersectionality in Romanian Theater, Cătălina Florina Florescu offers an invaluable addition to current thea…
New York. Other Press. 2024. 320 pages. Among the nearly ten thousand Palestinians jailed in Israeli prisons, the poet Nasser Abu Srour has remained behind bars since 1993. In the la…
New York. Random House. 2024. 224 pages. Knife is the highly anticipated autobiographical account of Salman Rushdie’s experience of being stabbed onstage just when he was about to de…
Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2024. 226 pages. A recent Parisian exhibit about the pre-impressionists revealed that before painting techniques changed, artists abandoned heroic subjects and e…
Paris. Gallimard. 2023. 160 pages. In 1953 a young Swiss writer named Nicolas Bouvier and an equally young Swiss painter named Thierry Vernet began a long road trip that would eventu…
Brooklyn. Archipelago Books. 2024. 240 pages. “When spring arrives in the north and swallows migrate northward, North American professors migrate down here,” explains Hebe Uhart at t…
New York. Pegasus Books. 2024. 496 pages. The Egyptian city of Alexandria, the “mermaid of the Mediterranean,” has long been overdue for a thorough history. It makes a difference tha…
New York. Penguin Press. 2023. 416 pages. German American political scientist and founder of the publication Persuasion, Yascha Mounk’s steady rise to fame and presence in public deb…
New York. Routledge. 2023. 262 pages. Futurism and the African Imagination is a must-read and a welcome addition to books of recent scholarship on African literature and other…
Montreal. Drawn & Quarterly. 2024. 268 pages. Montreal-based artist Julie Delporte has made a name for herself with a body of graphic memoirs drawn in her signature colored…
Hamilton, Ontario. Wolsak & Wynn. 2023. 172 pages. Writer, academic, and painter Mariam Pirbhai presents a unique take on a settlement story in this collection of essays. By expl…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2024. 345 pages. One of Walter Benjamin’s haunting statements from the Critique of Violence runs as follows: “Mythic violence is blood-violence o…
New York. New York Review Books. 2023. 216 pages. It would be easy to jump to the wrong conclusion about a book like this one, which is made up of a writer’s collected blogs. What’s…
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…
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…
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 explore…
Toronto. Trace Press. 2023. 223 pages. Most of the collections of translation essays I’ve come across, including those that were key to my development as a translator—such as The Cra…