2 vols. Kraków. Wydawnictwo Znak. 2018. 857 & 958 pages.
Andrzej Franaszek once again undertook a gigantic task when, after his successful biography of Nobel Prize–winning Polish author Czesław Mi…
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New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2019. 336 pages. Pagan Light takes the reader to Capri, a small island just south of Naples, for a look at its history as an artistic and sexual refuge, w…
Montreal. Drawn & Quarterly. 2019. 256 pages. The first thing you notice about This Woman’s Work is the image of struggle on the cover—a girl pushing away a polar bear—a metaphor that is…
New York. Palgrave Macmillan. 2018. 215 pages. In the insightful introduction to her latest book, Nyla Ali Khan remarks that the “primary readership will comprise students and scholars of South Asia.”…
Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press. 2018. 352 pages. Arranged in four thematic parts, Reimagining a Place for the Wild is a collection of essays and narratives that ranges across discip…
New York. Hogarth. 2019. 160 pages. Han Kang’s The White Book is a meditation on grief using a study of white objects in the author’s life to spark memories of events she did—and did not—expe…
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Cambridge, UK. Polity Press. 2018. 222 pages. The problem of carbon is challenging every aspect of society today, and there are no easy answers. Kate Ervine, a faculty member in the International Deve…
New York. Scribner. 2018. 288 pages. Revisiting and then capturing the past, especially a historical past, always requires an exercise in imagination. Moreover, when the imagination has been informed…
New Delhi. Bloomsbury India. 2018. 170 pages. The ethnic cleansing and mass migration of Hindus and Sikhs from the provinces that became Pakistan in 1947 form an important current of twentieth-century…
Paris. Futuropolis. 2018. 319 pages. Renald Luzier (“Luz”) started drawing for the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 1993 and eventually became one of its best-known cartoonists. On Jan. 7,…
Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Cherokee Nation. 2018. 278 pages. The team behind Cherokee Nation is a veritable powerhouse. Bob Blackburn, executive director of the Oklahoma Historical Society, has ro…
Edmonton, Alberta. AU Press. 2018. 312 pages It is significant that Meenal Shrivastava’s memoir of Amma, her maternal grandmother, is titled Amma’s Daughters. I emphasize the plural “daughter…
London. Francis Boutle. 2018. 392 pages. In 2005 the publisher Francis Boutle embarked on an ambitious series of bilingual anthologies of the Lesser Used Languages of Europe. Recently, the ninth volum…
Mexico City. Almadía. 2018. 408 pages. El vértigo horizontal, by the Mexican writer Juan Villoro, is designed as a cartographic map of the Mexico City subway with different lines and intersec…
Blacksburg, Virginia. Noemi Press. 2018. 96 pages. If you’ve noticed that translated books are enjoying an uptick in popularity, you are not alone. Indeed, the griping about a widespread disregard fo…
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…
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…