Thousand Oaks, California. Sage. 2019. 380 pages.
Those who are aware of anticasteism and lower-caste empowerment movements in India will certainly be familiar with Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd. His books a…
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Madrid. Círculo de Tiza. 2018. 459 pages. Impón tu suerte, expanded, corrected, and now painstakingly amended by Aznar Pérez within months of the first edition, is a defining aesthetic statem…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2019. 208 pages. This book deals with the twenty-first century, the historical experience it accommodates in terms of terrorism, tourism, and information technolog…
Louisville, Kentucky. Sarabande Books. 2019. 116 pages. An eclectic and diverse collection of twenty essays, Lia Purpura’s All the Fierce Tethers excels in the interplay of its tripartite emp…
New York. Atria Books. 2018. 336 pages. Reyna Grande shares her experiences as an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who, at age nine, accompanied by young siblings and a coyote, succeeded on her thir…
London. Routledge. 2018. 416 pages. The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing is a stupendous collection of essays, serving as a comprehensive preamble to historical, regional,…
Stockholm. Piratförlaget. 2017. 323 pages. Seeing to believing: it could be the motto for this book. Hilma, “A novel about the enigma that was Hilma af Klint,” is a captivating, intelligently…
Minneapolis. Milkweed Editions. 2018. 336 pages. Throughout this book of letters, accomplished playwright Sarah Ruhl reminds us that her friend and student, Max Ritvo, wanted to be remembered for his…
Seattle, Washington. Fantagraphics Books. 2018. 196 pages. Drawn to Berlin is Ali Fitzgerald’s autobiographical account of her living in Berlin and holding comic workshops in Berlin refugee s…
Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Bornmeer. 2018. 143 pages. In 2018 tens of thousands of tourists from near and faraway places visited Leeuwarden on the occasion of its designation as the 2018 Cultural Capit…
Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press. 2018. 216 pages. As director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University, Philip Metres might be expected to champion political…
London. Pushkin Press. 2018. 130 pages. Giorgio van Straten’s day job as director of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York seems to have been tailor-made for him. He is a public intellectual wh…
New York. Hachette. 2018. 284 pages. The case for universal basic income (UBI)—whereby the state makes regular, unconditional income payments to all its working-age citizens—is gaining increasing trac…
Paris. Gallimard. 2018. 509 pages. Philippe Lançon was shot in the face and left for dead during the January 7, 2015, jihadi terrorist attack in Paris that targeted the journalists and cartoonists of…
Oakland, California. Transit Books. 2018. 225 pages. Far south of Buenos Aires lie the isolated steppes of Patagonia, Argentina’s southernmost region. For Argentines, Patagonia is considered a backwat…
Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan Press. 2018. 228 pages. Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s bracing text diagnoses an identity crisis in African literature, its source the English Metaphysical Empire (EME),…
New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2018. 410 pages. The poet and critic Meena Alexander begins her introduction to the anthology Name Me a Word with a personal anecdote about her…
Vancouver. Greystone Books. 2018. 312 pages. It sounds like a lovely pastime, diving to observe sweetly absurd-looking seahorses (genus Hippocampus), but what is its relevance to a book about…
Brooklyn, New York. Archipelago Books. 2018. 160 pages. The Barefoot Woman is a living-record document, the voice of culture, tradition, and hope as well as a representation of the history li…
New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2017. 275 pages. Slight Exaggeration announces itself playfully, in a faithful translation of the Polish opening: “I won’t tell all regardless.” “I…
New York. Bloomsbury Academic. 2017. 376 pages. Romanian Literature as World Literature, a collection of comparative essays from sixteen authors, seeks to situate Romanian literature in the c…
Madrid. La Huerta Grande Editorial. 2017. 139 pages. Juan Carlos Chirinos concludes Venezuela wishing that his book might be the portrayal of “a displaced soul that converges into a greater g…
Paris. Seuil. 2018. 184 pages. Ever since Le Gone du Chaâba (1986), Azouz Begag’s novels have been autobiographical, exploring his background as the child of impoverished Algerian immigrants…
London. Fitzcarraldo Editions. 2017. 128 pages. There is a long tradition of dualism in Western thought and culture. Many times philosophers, theologians, and psychologists have presented the world as…
New York. Harper Perennial. 2018. 272 pages. In her new memoir, author Porochista Khakpour delves into her own history of illness and addiction to craft a harrowing tale of sickness in all its forms a…