Medford, Massachusetts. Polity Press. 2021. 250 pages.
PABLO SERVIGNE AND Raphaël Stevens became household names in some circles with the concept of “collapsology” described in their…
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New York. Astra House. 2021. 304 pages. READING WINTER PASTURE, Li Juan’s account of her time with shepherds in the foothills of the Altai Mountains, I was reminded of Polish…
Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2021. 290 pages. ANDRI SNÆR MAGNASON’S On Time and Water is a wondrous, rambling book. It confronts the ecological and social challenges fac…
New York. Columbia University Press. 2021. 325 pages. JULIET WINTERS CARPENTER faced a seemingly impossible task when she undertook to translate Shishōsetsu from left to right…
New York. Columbia University Press. 2021. 307 pages. THIS AMBITIOUS COLLECTION provides English-language readers with a systematic introduction to the work of one of Russia’s most im…
New York. Bloomsbury Academic. 2021. 183 pages. THIS MONOGRAPH’S overarching argument complements the burgeoning studies on translation by examining the heralded richness of contempor…
Budapest. Noran Libro. 2020. 264 pages. THE HUNGARIAN WRITER György Konrád passed away in September 2019 at the age of eighty-six. His death is commemorated in a book of reminiscences…
Cham, Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. 122 pages. MORE THAN A book-length commentary on an Egyptian cinematic masterpiece, Barra and Zaman, part of the Palgrav…
Oslo. Novus Press. 2019. 202 pages. KWOK-KAN TAM’S recent study, Ibsen, Power and the Self: Postsocialist Chinese Experimentations in Stage Performance and Film, dedicated to…
Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2020. 168 pages. PUERTO RICO–BORN and New York–based Giannina Braschi is a strange writer. A poet and a novelist, over the last four decade…
London. Bloomsbury Continuum. 2021. 256 pages. ALEX CHRISTOFI’S ENTICING literary biography, Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life, takes a unique approach to the genre. He in…
New York. Routledge. 2020. 432 pages. THE STUDY OF MINORITY groups and their cultural productions has generated many books and research papers, including Abdul R. JanMohamed and David…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2021. 464 pages. THE BIOGRAPHY OF an English professor who is known for eclectic bibliographies ignoring doctrinal lines would, ideally, draw on a…
London. Hurst. 2020. 367 pages. As events unfold in the Arabic-speaking Middle East, whether related to the Arab-Israeli conflict, to the war in Syria, or to Trump’s so-called deal of…
New York. Grove Press. 2021. 272 pages. FLIGHT, MOVEMENT FROM place to place, past to present, border-crossings real and philosophical are central to award-winning Sierra Leonean nove…
Oxford. Oxford University Press. 2020. 380 pages. IN HER INTRODUCTION to The Best American Essays 1992, Susan Sontag writes: “The culture administered by universities has alw…
Chennai, India. Westland. 2020. 144 pages. MUCH OF INDIA’S LITERARY and cinematic worlds are geared up to celebrate with considerable enthusiasm the birth centenary of Sahir Ludhianvi…
Athens. University of Georgia Press. 2020. 185 pages. THE MOTIF OF DANCING is central to Sejal Shah’s memorable collection of essays about growing up “Indian outside of India, in non-…
New Haven. Yale University Press. 2020. 302 pages. “THE MISERY OF VENICE stands there for all the world to see,” Henry James wrote in Italian Hours, “a thoroughgoing devotee…
Philadelphia. Paul Dry Books. 2021. 184 pages. AS THE TITLE SUGGESTS, this book of memoirs recounts the author’s interactions with Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Fitzgerald, and John Cheeve…
CaptionBautzen, Germany. Domowina-Verlag. 2020. 191 pages. IN 2003, THE VILLAGE CHURCH in Horno/Rogow, Germany, was “beheaded.” The steeple of its church was cut off, emptied of its v…
Brooklyn. Ugly Duckling Presse. 2020. 45 pages. WE MAY THINK OF THE pamphlet as an obsolete genre and format, the kind libraries and archives collect and educated readers associate wi…
Montreal. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2020. 511 pages. THE MONOLITH OF American history often overshadows the continent’s early multiculturalism. This is especially true of the A…
London. Fitzcarraldo Editions. 500 pages. THE LITERATURE OF MEMORY often explores what consciousness is stored in and speaks from objects. Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu…
London. Granta. 2020. 352 pages. FRANCES LARSON IS AN anthropologist at the University of Durham and the author of three books on anthropologists, collectors of artifacts, and beheadi…