New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780300153002
As a young man of twenty-one, Wilfred Owen remained the boy who posed in a family snapshot as a proud soldier with gun in one ha…
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Will H. Corral, Juan E. De Castro, and Nicholas Birns, eds. New York. Bloomsbury. 2013. ISBN 9781441142597 This unique collection of essays by fifty scholars and writers on the work of sixty-nine con…
New York. Bloomsbury. 2014. ISBN 9781608198061 It is difficult to imagine tackling such a complex and emotionally wrought subject as preparing for one’s parents’ deaths in a graphic memoir, but that…
D. J. Walker, tr. San Francisco. City Lights. 2013. ISBN 9780872865747 Nan Dòmi is Mimerose Beaubrun’s fascinating, first-person narration recounting her study of, and initiation into, Haiti…
Jeremy Tiang, tr. Singapore. Epigram Books. 2013. ISBN 9789810766702 Durians Are Not the Only Fruit is a delightfully atypical publication to find in English. A well-read person will be expec…
Champaign, Illinois. Dalkey Archive Press. 2014. ISBN 9781628970142 What do we see when we read? For Warren Motte, the question is more properly stated, what do we see reflected when we read…
Witold Gombrowicz. Kronos. Kraków. Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2013 ISBN 9788308050781 In the view of most critics, Dzienniki (Diaries) is among the best writings of Witold Gombrowicz (1…
Montréal. Drawn & Quarterly. 2013. ISBN 9781770461147 For the reader who first heard about Art Spiegelman with the phenomenal success of Maus, CO-MIX is evidence that he had been…
Seattle. Sasquatch (Random House, distr.). 2013. ISBN 9781570618741 With effortlessly honest introspections, acclaimed poet Gary Soto describes the wide-ranging experiences of the writing life in all…
London / New York. I. B. Tauris. 2014. ISBN 9781848859272 We have all heard of The Thousand and One Nights, but stories outside this collection are a different m…
Luis Valdez, foreword. Robert Kaiser, photography. Levi Romero, poetry. Albuquerque. University of New Mexico Press. 2013. ISBN 9780826353542 This book by Spencer R. Herrera, coauthored by poet Levi R…
Steven Pavlos Holmes, ed. Salt Lake City, Utah. Torrey House Press. 2013. ISBN 9781937226275 Until recently, writers in the United States have found it difficult to put a human face on climate change…
Erin, Ontario. Porcupine’s Quill. 2013. ISBN 9780889843622 Alec Dempster’s Lotería Jarocha brings together two Mexican folk traditions, the son jarocho and the lotería. From…
New York. Viking. 2014. ISBN 9780670786046 In this memoir, Julene Bair attempts to weave multiple kinds of love and reckonings together as she informs readers of the rapid depletion of the Ogallala aq…
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780674724761 A Life Worth Living is Robert Zaretsky’s second book on Albert Camus in five years. Like his pre…
David Williams, tr. Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2014. ISBN 9781934824894 Since leaving Croatia in 1994, Dubravka Ugresic has penned sharp, darkly funny critiques of contemporary Western and glob…
Antonia Lloyd-Jones, tr. London. Stork Press. 2013. ISBN 9780957391253 Witold Szabłowski is a Polish journalist who has written extensively about Turkey. Twelve pieces of nonfiction have been arranged…
New York. Oxford University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780199734542 Schadenfreude, the act of taking pleasure in another’s pain, is the subject of University of Kentucky psychologist Richard H. Smith’s slim…
London. Seagull Books (University of Chicago Press, distr.). 2013. ISBN 9780857420800 Silent conversations (the lowercase is indicative of Anthony Rudolf’s aura of mystery) is an account, alb…
New York. Viking. 2013. ISBN 9780670025305 Good essayists make us reflect on the world that we presume to know. Their ideas, often controversial, remind us that life is full of mystery, wonder, and c…
Peter Davison, ed. New York. Liveright / W. W. Norton. 2013. ISBN9780871404626 “When I was a kid you could walk into a bicycle shop or ironmonger’s and buy any firearm you pleased, short of a field gu…
San Francisco. City Lights. 2013. ISBN 9780872866256 Beth Lisick understands nervous laughter. In Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames, her new collection of forty-eight essays and oddbal…
Chicago. Prickly Paradigm. 2013. ISBN 9780984201037 In the late winter and spring of 2011, Neil Hertz (literary critic, photographer, and professor emeritus in Johns Hopkins University’s English depar…
Alastair McEwen, tr. New York / London. Rizzoli Ex Libris / MacLehose. 2013. ISBN 9780847841219 / 9780857052872 One only has to read two or three of Umberto Eco’s books to discover that he has made t…
New York. Routledge. 2013. ISBN 9780415696296 Translation Changes Everything contains fourteen essays by Lawrence Venuti, professor of English at Temple University, one of the most influentia…