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 explo…
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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 ov…
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 w…
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 A…
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 t…
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 explored in t…
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 Craf…
New York. First Second. 2023. 240 pages. 2023. 182 pages. Thien Pham’s memoir joins a growing body of works about the Vietnamese diaspora in graphic novel form. A gentle, complex narr…
New York. Restless Books. 2023. 272 pages. In Ani Gjika’s debut memoir, An Unruled Body, the reader is invited to think about translation as an experience of the body, a corporeal car…
Seattle. Amazon Crossing. 2023. 269 pages. Paula Ramón’s most cherished childhood memories include stories from her Spanish father, a man twenty-five years older than her mother and a…
Illus. Chris Maynard. Northampton, Massachusetts. Orion Magazine. 2023. 176 pages. It will come as no surprise to readers of Orion, the publishers of this volume, that a book which dr…
New York. Bloomsbury Academic. 2022. 280 pages.152 pages. Understanding what it means to be well and how to take care of our well-being is a common motif found in both life and litera…
New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2024. 152 pages. Fifty-nine-year-old Éric Chevillard is revered in France as one of its most original postmodernist authors. He has publ…
Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 2023. 242 pages. The thesis of North Country: Essays on the Upper Midwest and Regional Identity is that the Upper Midwest of the…
New York. Penguin Press. 2023. 356 pages. Peter Turchin is predicting a grave spiral of political turmoil that may well end badly for the American body politic. Employing a synthesis…
Paris. Gallimard. 2022. 208 pages. Born in Kolkata, India, in 1973, Shumona Sinha started studying French fairly late, at the age of twenty-two. She moved to France six years later, i…
Cambridge, UK. Polity Press. 2023. 225 pages. Today, confessional memoirs often hail from the margins of religious experience. With Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss (2013), it is tha…
New York. Bloomsbury Academic. 2023 (©2022). 253 pages. With an international team of academics, translators, linguists, and poets, Piotr Florczyk and K. A. Wisniewski put the spotlight on authors, pu…
London. Seagull. 2023. 116 pages. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s advocacy of Africans writing in their own African languages and then translating to other African and foreign languages began in…
New York. Pantheon. 2023. 368 pages. At first glance, the thinkers spotlighted in William Egginton’s book don’t necessarily belong together. Immanuel Kant, Jorge Luis Borges, and Wern…
New York. Row House. 2023. 339 pages. In the field of art conservation, the term “dwell time” describes the time in which it takes for a cleaning product to work on a targeted materi…
Athens. Vine Leaves Press. 2023. 160 pages. Jennifer Lang’s memoir-in-miniature, Places We Left Behind, is a palimpsest of time and space mapped across the end of the twentieth centur…
Beijing. Peking University Press. 2023. 334 pages. To remind himself of the paramount importance of the philosophical tradition of Confucianism, the ancient Chinese Shang Dynasty’s e…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2023. 258 pages. “New Experiences slipped through his fingers like grains of sand, never to be touched again.” My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Al…
New York. Flatiron Books. 2023. 304 pages. To many, mathematics is quite separate from literature; however, that is very far from reality. Mathematics has remained an indispensable pa…