Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Press. 2022. 234 pages.
THIS VISUALLY STUNNING collection of photographs and essays presents readers with an unsettling view of the moment in time in w…
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Seattle. Sublunary Editions. 2022. 124 pages. AS A NOVELIST, Pierre Senges is generally published by Verticales, one of the two mainstream purveyors of experimental French writing. Se…
New York. Pantheon. 2022. 512 pages. CIVIL RIGHTS QUEEN begins with a provocative poem, written by a fifteen-year-old Constance Juanita Baker, that questions the injustice sh…
White River Junction, Vermont. Chelsea Green. 2022. 208 pages. THE MUSKY BREATH of the Polish bison bulls, cloudy in the cool green thicket of the deciduous understory, is a difficult…
Chicago. Haymarket Books. 2022. 328 pages. EDITED BY CAITS MEISSNER, current director of the PEN America Prison and Justice Writing Program, The Sentences That Create Us is a…
New York. New Press. 2022. 352 pages. THE TEXTILE MILLS in England were key to the development of the Industrial Revolution. Commonly left out of the picture was the crucial component…
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 2022. 208 pages. JHUMPA LAHIRI’S CAREER as a writer has defied conventional expectations. Having achieved critical acclaim as a South Asian Amer…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2022. 335 pages. MANY PEOPLE HAVE written about mental crises—one thinks of Dostoevsky, Gogol, Stevenson, Waugh, Plath, and Styron, for instance—b…
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 2022. 160 pages. MARTIN PUCHNER’S Literature for a Changing Planet is an urgent call for rereading the stories that have shaped our wor…
Illus. Édouard Glissant. New York. Isolarii. 2021. 220 pages. THE ARCHIPELAGO CONVERSATIONS or, alternatively, Archipelago, is a unique little book focusing on Mart…
Belfast. The Blackstaff Press. 2021. 346 pages. WAR PHOTOGRAPHER Robert Capa famously said, “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.” The outstanding quality of…
San Francisco. Two Lines Press. 2021. 344 pages. AS HAS BEEN said before in various contexts, Brazil is a nation of continental proportions and of equally vast contradictions, and thi…
Brooklyn. Archipelago Books. 2021. 144 pages. BIRTHED IN THE brothels of Buenos Aires, and now heralded as emblematic of Argentine culture, the tango evolved from a fusion of the can…
London. DK. 2021. 227 pages. WHY SHOULD JUST this book on climate change science and preemptive policies merit a review in a literature magazine? There are so many, and only…
New York. Europa Editions. 2022. 112 pages. ELENA FERRANTE’S NEW book, In the Margins, is an exciting reading experience reminiscent of captivating nonfictional works such as…
New York. Viking. 2022. 272 pages. “TRUTH” AND HOW we find it has never been an easy topic. If anything, the past decade has scattered any hope that the twentieth century’s stellar ri…
London. Particular Books. 2021. 149 pages. IN TRYING TO convey the quality of Birdsong in a Time of Silence, I found myself remembering something from another beautifully wri…
Brooklyn. Street Noise Books. 2021. 118 pages. CONFLICT AND STRUGGLE, both political and personal, have long been potent subjects for literature. And in the past forty years, ever sin…
West Lafayette, Indiana. Purdue University Press. 2021. 456 pages. SOME LIVES ARE iconic; such is the case with Czechoslovakian intellect Agneša Kalinová (1924–2014), whose personal n…
Beijing. Beijing United. 2021. 313 pages. AFTER WINNING THE Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2019, Liang Xiaosheng gathered some of his life stories for his latest book, Ren Jian Qing…
Pasadena, California. Red Hen. 2021. 368 pages. IN HIS INTRODUCTION to New Moons, a collection of poetry, fiction, and lyrical memoirs by Muslims in North America, Kazim Ali…
London. Thames & Hudson. 2021. 320 pages. “UN MIRACLE D'AMOUR,” SAID French writer Paul Valéry in 1925 about the existence of PEN International, founded in 1921 by English novelis…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2021. 450 pages. DURING HIS AMERICAN exile, on the evening of November 17, 1942, at the Library of Congress in Washington, Thomas Mann gave an add…
New York. Seven Stories Press. 2022. 235 pages. AS TOLD TO journalist Rozenn Morgat by Gulbahar Haitiwaji, and beautifully translated by Edward Gauvin, this is a current and deeply di…
Minneapolis. Milkweed Editions. 2021. 136 pages. I READ VICTORIA CHANG’S poetry collection Obit (Copper Canyon, 2020) after the death of my father. It was the only book that…