Pasadena, California. Red Hen Press. 2014. ISBN 9781597095372Adrianne Kalfopoulou, poet, professor, and Plathian scholar, currently lives and teaches in Athens, Greece, where she teaches at Helle…
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New York. Simon & Schuster. 2015. ISBN 9781451682007B & Me begins with a crisis: the author, J. C. Hallman, has lost faith in his lifelong passion, literature, and wants, needs…
New York. Viking. 2014. ISBN 9780670015832 In times of love and war, many people write letters—all of them of interest to someone. But except for the participants themselves, their extended famil…
Carter Kaplan, ed. Brookline, Massachusetts. International Authors. 2014. ISBN 9781499703719 Emanations: Foray into Forever is a refreshingly focused collection—focused by staking out a…
Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 2014. ISBN 9780806144795Starting where her previous memoir, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (1997) left off, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Outlaw Woman: A Memoir…
Belgrade. Self-published. 2014. ISBN 9788691799502In Serbia, Snežana Radojičić is not an unknown author. For her first book, the short novel Dok su duše lutale (1994), she was awarded a…
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay, ed. & tr. New York / New Delhi. Harper Perennial / HarperCollins India. 2014. ISBN 9789351361930Satyajit Ray’s roots as a filmmaker are in the visual arts and lite…
New York. Bloomsbury. 2013. ISBN 9781608195213In Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward crafts a beautiful narrative about loss, grief, and remembrance. Ward’s second novel, Salvage the Bones, e…
Newark / Lanham, Maryland. University of Delaware Press / Rowman & Littlefield. 2013. ISBN 9781611494549Mortality’s Muse is a rare book: thoroughly researched, genially delivered. Th…
New York. Picador. 2014. ISBN 9781250039569Alcoholics offer various reasons for their addiction. Fitzgerald believed, or rationalized, that liquor heightens the emotions, enabling him to make his…
Elzbieta Matynia, tr. New Haven. Yale University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780300204032 In 1978 eight dissidents met on a mountainside on the border between Czechoslovakia and Poland, countries under Co…
Paris. Seuil. 2014. ISBN 9782370210371Regarde les lumières mon amour is a wonderful addition to Annie Ernaux’s life writings. Her observations of social life in a Parisian suburb reveal…
New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780300153002As a young man of twenty-one, Wilfred Owen remained the boy who posed in a family snapshot as a proud soldier with gun in on…
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…
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 t…
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 in…
Jeremy Tiang, tr. Singapore. Epigram Books. 2013. ISBN 9789810766702Durians Are Not the Only Fruit is a delightfully atypical publication to find in English. A well-read person will be expect…
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…
Witold Gombrowicz. Kronos. Kraków. Wydawnictwo Literackie. 2013 ISBN 9788308050781In the view of most critics, Dzienniki (Diaries) is among the best writings of Witold Gombrowicz (19…
Montréal. Drawn & Quarterly. 2013. ISBN 9781770461147For the reader who first heard about Art Spiegelman with the phenomenal success of Maus, CO-MIX is evidence that he had…
Seattle. Sasquatch (Random House, distr.). 2013. ISBN 9781570618741With effortlessly honest introspections, acclaimed poet Gary Soto describes the wide-ranging experiences of the writing life in…
London / New York. I. B. Tauris. 2014. ISBN 9781848859272We have all heard of The Thousand and One Nights, but stories outside this collection are a differe…
Luis Valdez, foreword. Robert Kaiser, photography. Levi Romero, poetry. Albuquerque. University of New Mexico Press. 2013. ISBN 9780826353542This book by Spencer R. Herrera, coauthored by poet Levi Ro…
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 ch…
Erin, Ontario. Porcupine’s Quill. 2013. ISBN 9780889843622Alec Dempster’s Lotería Jarocha brings together two Mexican folk traditions, the son jarocho and the lotería.…