New York. Viking. 2014. ISBN 9780670786046In this memoir, Julene Bair attempts to weave multiple kinds of love and reckonings together as she informs readers of the rapid depletion of the Ogallal…
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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…
David Williams, tr. Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2014. ISBN 9781934824894Since leaving Croatia in 1994, Dubravka Ugresic has penned sharp, darkly funny critiques of contemporary Western and globa…
Antonia Lloyd-Jones, tr. London. Stork Press. 2013. ISBN 9780957391253Witold Szabłowski is a Polish journalist who has written extensively about Turkey. Twelve pieces of nonfiction have been arra…
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 s…
London. Seagull Books (University of Chicago Press, distr.). 2013. ISBN 9780857420800Silent conversations (the lowercase is indicative of Anthony Rudolf’s aura of mystery) is an account, albe…
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, a…
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 gun…
San Francisco. City Lights. 2013. ISBN 9780872866256Beth Lisick understands nervous laughter. In Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames, her new collection of forty-eight essays and od…
Chicago. Prickly Paradigm. 2013. ISBN 9780984201037In the late winter and spring of 2011, Neil Hertz (literary critic, photographer, and professor emeritus in Johns Hopkins University’s English depart…
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 ma…
New York. Routledge. 2013. ISBN 9780415696296Translation Changes Everything contains fourteen essays by Lawrence Venuti, professor of English at Temple University, one of the most influential…
C. Dickson, tr. Boston. David R. Godine. 2013. ISBN 9781567924602 Memoir is about writing to understand, about creating a meaningful narrative from the haze of events, lingering emotion, and sens…
Oxford, England. Oxford University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780199892884 Lin Shu, Inc. offers a multifaceted study of the translation practices of Lin Shu and his collaborators in late Qing an…
New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2013. ISBN 9780374115739This brilliant essay collection provides sources for earlier works by Aleksandar Hemon, explores identity formation and diasporic doublen…
Pico Iyer, foreword. London / Chicago. Peter Owen (IPG, distr.). 2012. ISBN 9780720614886 In a Time magazine movie review of Graham Greene’s The Comedians, its critic…
New York. Knopf. 2013. ISBN 9780307960580Anne Carson’s Red Doc> is a brilliantly conceived hybrid both in form and content. Boldly mischievous in tone and risk-taking in spirit, it is…
New York. Henry Holt. 2013. ISBN 9780805098570His success as a novelist notwithstanding, autobiographical writing has been at the forefront of Paul Auster’s work from the time of his debut, The In…La lámpara maravillosa: Cuatro ensayos sobre la educación y un elogio a la lectura by William Ospina
Bogotá. Random House / Mondadori. 2012. ISBN 9789588640174 In an admirable page of La lámpara maravillosa: Cuatro ensayos sobre la educación y un elogio a la lectura (The marvelous lamp:…- Phillip Lopate. To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction. New York. Simon & Schuster / Free Press. 2013. ISBN 9781451696325Portrait Inside M…
- Philadelphia. Temple University Press. 2012. ISBN 9781439907597June 4, 1989, remains a day of infamy for the Chinese government. The Chinese army opened fire that day on Chinese citizens (workers…
- New York. Knopf. 2013. ISBN 9780307270245In his last work, Lebensanschauung (1918), the German sociologist Georg Simmel articulated a concept of the modern individual as a boundary between bo…
- Geoff Wisner, ed. Boulder, Colorado. Lynne Rienner. 2013. ISBN 9781588268624In African Lives, Geoff Wisner’s selection of memoirs (inclusive of an interview, a speech, and court testimon…
- Warsaw. Zeszyty Literackie. 2012. ISBN 9788360046364In 1982 a courageous young woman, Barbara Toruńczyk, launched a new Polish literary magazine in Paris. Against all odds this magazine, Zeszyty L…
- Jeffrey Angles, tr. Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press. 2012. ISBN 9780816679362Mutsuo Takahashi is one of the most prominent contemporary Japanese poets to have thematized homoeroticism.…