Beijing. Beijing United Publishing. 2021. 246 pages.
YANG BENFEN PUBLISHED her first autographical novel, Qiu Yuan (which translates as “Autumn Garden”), in 2020, wh…
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Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 2021. 348 pages. WRITTEN TOWARD THE end of his career as a novelist creating the incredibly successful Navajo mystery series, Tony Hillerman’s be…
New York. Dutton. 2021. 352 pages. THEORIZING ABOUT consciousness was long left to philosophers. Venturing into the field as a neuroscientist was risking ridicule and, possibly, caree…
Durham. Duke University Press. 2021. 262 pages. KNOWN FOR THEIR books on California history, literary criticism, and narrative fiction, Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita have released…
New York. Grove Press. 2021. 208 pages. POET AND NOVELIST Kei Miller is one of the most prolific Jamaican writers of his generation. Things I Have Withheld is Miller’s second…
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe & Tamiko Nimura
Illus. Ross Ishikawa & Matt Sasaki. Seattle. Chin Music Press. 2021. 151 pages. FOR DECADES, THE stories of over 112,000 Japanese American individuals incarcerated in the United S…
Brooklyn. Archipelago Books. 2021. 920 pages. KIN, BY MILJENKO JERGOVIĆ, is a behemoth of a book: 920 pages long and covering more than one hundred years of history. Jergović…
New York. Riverhead Books. 2021. 232 pages. DEAR SENTHURAN IS Akwaeke Emezi’s first memoir in their prolific and growing catalog. Emezi’s “black spirit memoir” is about their…
Newcastle upon Tyne. Cambridge Scholars. 2021. 206 pages. ROBERTO CANTÚ’S Homecoming Trails in Mexican American Cultural History is a welcome contribution for understanding t…
New York. Anchor Books. 2021. 615 pages. TITLES CAN BE MISLEADING. In one sense, The Contemporary American Essay is perfectly chosen. It describes with commendable exactitude…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2021. 704 pages. THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING: A New History of Humanity is the grandiose title of David Graeber and David Wengrow’s n…
New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 2021. 80 pages. NOTES ON GRIEF is two portraits in one: that of a loved and loving man, and that of a daughter undone by grief. In a serie…
Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton University Press. 2021. 448 pages. TRYING TO THEORIZE the beginnings of a phenomenon involves equal parts fascination and frustration; both are in ful…
Medford, Massachusetts. Polity Press. 2021. 155 pages. MEMORY AND FORGETTING in the Digital Age is a descriptive subtitle for Italian philosopher Davide Sisto’s book…
New York. HarperVia. 2021. 194 pages. VANESSA SPINGORA’S memoir, Consent, is not an easy book to read. This is not because of her writing style, or the translator’s rendering…
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…
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…