New York. Knopf. 2024. 288 pages.
Richard Flanagan begins his latest book by visiting a coal mine where Japanese soldiers interned his father during World War II. There, he finds, “no…
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Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2024. 139 pages. Edwidge Danticat’s collection of essays We’re Alone was released a few months before the members of the Haitian diaspora in the United St…
Berkeley, California. Transit Books. 2024. 48 pages. “For his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” was the official rationale the Swedish Academy gave for awa…
Cambridge, UK. Cambridge University Press. 2024. 718 pages. The scale of what’s being attempted here is impressive. As Christy Wampole puts it, “the volume spans roughly 310 years and…
New York. Viking. 2024. 304 pages. What does it mean to grow up queer in a society that devalues who you are through politics, social norms, and family structures? It’s a question tha…
Paris. Gallimard. 2023. 192 pages.176 pages. Opening with the query “Qui est Colette?”, this work examines French author Colette’s journey of self-creation, starting from her given na…
Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton University Press. 2023. 408 pages. The first half of the twentieth century was a difficult period for moral and political philosophy, as dominant curr…
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 we…
Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press. 2024. 197 pages. History grows on solid, settled ground. Migration, relocation, and displacement leave transitory imprints but virtually no…
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 polit…
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 year…
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 refugees…
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 i…
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 mos…
New York. Routledge. 2023. 129 pages. In Female Playwrights and Applied Intersectionality in Romanian Theater, Cătălina Florina Florescu offers an invaluable addition to current theat…
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 las…
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 del…
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 et…
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 eventua…
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 th…
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 that…
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 deba…
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 arts t…
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-penci…