Bautzen, Germany. Domowina. 2012. ISBN 9783742022370One of the most interesting hidden chapters of modern German history remains the story of the Sorbian communities of Upper and Lower Lusatia (Ober-…
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- Chris Andrews & Natasha Wimmer, tr. New York. New Directions. 2012. ISBN 9780811218153At first glance, Roberto Bolaño’s The Secret of Evil may read like a hastily assembled collection of…
- Boston. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2012. ISBN 9780618982509Alison Bechdel made an auspicious entrance on the literary scene with her first graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragic Comic, in…
- Évelyne Trouillot. “Le Bleu de l’île.” Coulisses 44 (Spring 2012). Besançon, France. Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté. ISBN 9782848674254 Ronald is one of twelve Haitians under the blue ta…
- Durham, North Carolina. Carolina Academic Press. 2012. ISBN 9781611630299In ten essays anchored in the search and study of topics and approaches shaping contemporary African literature, Nigerian schol…
- New York. Bloomsbury. 2012. ISBN 9781596913639 “Unless you are a pathological escapist, there must be some sort of propaganda in everything you write,” Lillian Hellman told an interviewer. P…
- New York. Twelve. 2012. ISBN 9781455502752The phrase “the year of living dyingly” occurs only once in Christopher Hitchens’s new memoir, Mortality, but it is strong enough to stay with the re…
- Mairin O’Mahony, tr. Oakland, California. PM. 2012. ISBN 9781604864069Chastising architects is once again in fashion. Whether it is Architecture for Humanity admonishing architects to “Design like you…
- New York. Atlantic Monthly Press. 2012. ISBN 9780802119711The cover of David Treuer’s newest book, Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey through Reservation Life, evokes the tough but rewarding work…
- Stanford, California. Stanford University Press. 2012. ISBN 9780804762939Alan Mintz’s Sanctuary in the Wilderness represents a grand undertaking of the emergence and development of Hebrew poe…
- George Gömöri & Mari Gömöri, ed. London. Alba. 2012. ISBN 9780952760511 The contents of this handsome and moving book are summed up on the back cover: Jewish and non-Jewish Hungarian poets ex…
- New York. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 2012. ISBN 9780399158438When a leading science-fiction author publishes an anthology of essays entitled Distrust That Particular Flavor, one is reliev…
- New York. Twelve / Grand Central. 2012. ISBN 9780446563130Deftly written and refreshingly nonacademic, Eminent Outlaws spans fifty years of gay fiction, drama, and poetry from Gore Vidal…
- Brian Roettinger, designer. Zurich. JRP Ringier (Artbook / D.A.P., distr.). 2011. ISBN 9783037641194Collage Culture is itself something of a collage—a team effort by multidisciplinary writers…
- Lisa M. Dillman, tr. Champaign, Illinois. Dalkey Archive. 2012. ISBN 978-1564786067 Widely recognized as one of the finest Latin American essayists and as a trenchant critic of world literatures,…
- Anne McLean & Rosalind Harvey, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2012. ISBN 9780374223977First published in 2006 as El Olvido que seremos and reminiscent of Eduardo Galeano’s…
- New York. Pantheon. 2011. ISBN 9780375423949You might say, and many have, that in 1986 Art Spiegelman’s Maus revolutionized the late-twentieth-century cultural perception of comics and the en…
- Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2011. ISBN 9780815632788Through passionate personal accounts, close readings of Iranian literature, and astute observations of the culture, Farzaneh Mila…
- Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press. 2011 (©2010). ISBN 9780472050994Kevin Stein grew up, like most contemporary poets, believing what he was told, that poetry was a dying form, a noble if outdate…
- New York. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2012. ISBN 9780547134666Some might consider building a home in a country as politically volatile and prone to violence as Lebanon an exercise in futility, especial…
- Paris. P.O.L. 2011. ISBN 9782818014059The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot is one of the five major literary prizes in France, second only to the Prix Goncourt in terms of the prestige it confers. Created in…
- Seattle. Sasquatch. 2010. vi + 151 pages. $12.95. isbn 978-1-57061- 670-9We have all experienced it before: while attempting to read, our phone pings, alerting us to the arrival of a new text, email,…
- New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2011. lxii + 421 pages + 8 plates. $35. isbn 978-0-374-28138-0While admired during her lifetime, Elizabeth Bishop is now considered to be one of the most importa…
- Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2011. viii + 154 pages. $19.95. isbn 978-0-8156-3253-5Despite its modest subtitle, this book is a good introduction to a little-known but growing traditi…
- New York. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2011. ISBN 9780547336916The Tao of Travel is a delightful collection of un-commonplace remarks and episodes by writers who have traveled, edited by a…