Rita Wilson & Leah Gerber, ed. Clayton, Victoria, Australia. Monash University Publishing (isbs, distr.). 2012. ISBN 9781921867897Participants in the 2011 inaugural Literary Translation Summe…
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- New Haven. Yale University Art Gallery (Yale University Press, distr.). 2011. ISBN 9780300141375The explosion of digital imaging and social media in recent years has forever altered photography a…
- New York. Penguin. 2012. ISBN 9781594204821For those who already know the writer of Things Fall Apart (1958), Chinua Achebe’s memoir, There Was a Country, will emphasize and elucidat…
- México D.F. / Madrid. Santillana / Alfaguara. 2012. ISBN 9786071117663La civilización del espectáculo is a controversial and pessimistic book that also brims with vibrant energy and instigati…
- San Antonio, Texas. Trinity University Press. 2012. ISBN 9781595341143Gerald Stern takes seriously the etymology of the word essay, from the Old French essaier, meaning to attempt or…
- New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press. 2012. ISBN 9780300179958The Fifth Impossibility is a collection of essays by Norman Manea previously published in major United States journals and…
- Bautzen, Germany. Domowina. 2012. ISBN 9783742022370One of the most interesting hidden chapters of modern German history remains the story of the Sorbian communities of Upper and Lower Lusatia (Ober-…
- Chris Andrews & Natasha Wimmer, tr. New York. New Directions. 2012. ISBN 9780811218153At first glance, Roberto Bolaño’s The Secret of Evil may read like a hastily assembled collection of…
- Boston. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2012. ISBN 9780618982509Alison Bechdel made an auspicious entrance on the literary scene with her first graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragic Comic, in…
- Évelyne Trouillot. “Le Bleu de l’île.” Coulisses 44 (Spring 2012). Besançon, France. Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté. ISBN 9782848674254 Ronald is one of twelve Haitians under the blue ta…
- Durham, North Carolina. Carolina Academic Press. 2012. ISBN 9781611630299In ten essays anchored in the search and study of topics and approaches shaping contemporary African literature, Nigerian schol…
- New York. Bloomsbury. 2012. ISBN 9781596913639 “Unless you are a pathological escapist, there must be some sort of propaganda in everything you write,” Lillian Hellman told an interviewer. P…
- New York. Twelve. 2012. ISBN 9781455502752The phrase “the year of living dyingly” occurs only once in Christopher Hitchens’s new memoir, Mortality, but it is strong enough to stay with the re…
- Mairin O’Mahony, tr. Oakland, California. PM. 2012. ISBN 9781604864069Chastising architects is once again in fashion. Whether it is Architecture for Humanity admonishing architects to “Design like you…
- New York. Atlantic Monthly Press. 2012. ISBN 9780802119711The cover of David Treuer’s newest book, Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey through Reservation Life, evokes the tough but rewarding work…
- Stanford, California. Stanford University Press. 2012. ISBN 9780804762939Alan Mintz’s Sanctuary in the Wilderness represents a grand undertaking of the emergence and development of Hebrew poe…
- George Gömöri & Mari Gömöri, ed. London. Alba. 2012. ISBN 9780952760511 The contents of this handsome and moving book are summed up on the back cover: Jewish and non-Jewish Hungarian poets ex…
- New York. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 2012. ISBN 9780399158438When a leading science-fiction author publishes an anthology of essays entitled Distrust That Particular Flavor, one is reliev…
- New York. Twelve / Grand Central. 2012. ISBN 9780446563130Deftly written and refreshingly nonacademic, Eminent Outlaws spans fifty years of gay fiction, drama, and poetry from Gore Vidal…
- Brian Roettinger, designer. Zurich. JRP Ringier (Artbook / D.A.P., distr.). 2011. ISBN 9783037641194Collage Culture is itself something of a collage—a team effort by multidisciplinary writers…
- Lisa M. Dillman, tr. Champaign, Illinois. Dalkey Archive. 2012. ISBN 978-1564786067 Widely recognized as one of the finest Latin American essayists and as a trenchant critic of world literatures,…
- Anne McLean & Rosalind Harvey, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2012. ISBN 9780374223977First published in 2006 as El Olvido que seremos and reminiscent of Eduardo Galeano’s…
- New York. Pantheon. 2011. ISBN 9780375423949You might say, and many have, that in 1986 Art Spiegelman’s Maus revolutionized the late-twentieth-century cultural perception of comics and the en…
- Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2011. ISBN 9780815632788Through passionate personal accounts, close readings of Iranian literature, and astute observations of the culture, Farzaneh Mila…
- Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press. 2011 (©2010). ISBN 9780472050994Kevin Stein grew up, like most contemporary poets, believing what he was told, that poetry was a dying form, a noble if outdate…