Minneapolis. Milkweed Editions. 2021. 200 pages.
ON A NIGHT WHEN icy winds blew south off Lake Erie and shook the windows of Kazim Ali’s house in Oberlin, he remembered the Canadian w…
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New York. Metropolitan Books. 2020. 264 pages. WITH JOE SACCO having garnered fame for reporting from war-torn locales of the Gaza Strip, the Balkans, and the Russian Caucasus, a book…
New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2020. 450 pages. AS IN HIS STUDY of the ancient Vedics, Ardor, in The Celestial Hunter the Italian philologist and publisher R…
New York. Open Letter. 2020. 234 pages. QUITE SIMPLY, IT IS DIFFICULT to decide where to begin with Dubravka Ugrešić’s The Age of Skin since there’s not one, but a multitude…
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Milkweed Editions. 2020. 184 pages. AIMEE NEZHUKUMATAHIL'S World of Wonders takes a poetic-encyclopedic approach to memoir. The book is as much about…
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Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988. Ed. Nasser Mohajer. London. Oneworld. 2020. 480 pages. Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow. Toronto. Trace.…
New York. Bloomsbury. 2019. 292 pages. EACH OF THE TEN ESSAYS in this splendid, exhaustively researched, and timely collection—buoyed by the editors’ equally comprehensive introductio…
London. Pushkin Press. 2020. 352 pages. HARDLY A LITERARY POSITION exists that trumps that of the exile and the émigré. Of course, not every exile succeeds in fashioning from their ba…
Oakland, California. Transit Books. 2020. 340 pages. JON FOSSE is a well-known and revered multiple award-winning writer in his native Norway. He has published for more than twenty ye…
New York. New Directions. 2020. 212 pages. JENNY ERPENBECK’S fictional worlds offer us glimpses of what exists below the surface—of land, of water, of consciousness. In her novel …
New York. Columbia University Press. 2020. 277 pages. HOW APPROPRIATE THAT ONE of the most incisive studies of Elena Ferrante to date has been the outcome of an experiment in criticis…
Eugene, Oregon. Resource Publications. 2020. 270 pages. GLANCING AT ITS TABLE of contents and finding subjects ranging from C. S. Lewis to Morrissey to the Arab Spring, it might appea…
New York. And Other Stories. 2020. 120 pages. I’D READ TWO NOVELS written by Yuri Herrera before A Silent Fury. They were both masterpieces of brevity. The restraint and insi…
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Milkweeed Editions. 2020. 205 pages. FIRST PUBLISHED BY Doubleday Canada in 2002, For Joshua’s posthumous release as the first US edition of the late,…
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press. 2020. 416 pages. EURASIA'S MOST TUMULTUOUS chapters are preserved in the waters of two prehistoric lakes. In 2017 Kapka Kassabova’s Border…
New York. HarperCollins. 2020. 328 pages. “IMAGINE THIS: the author Fang Fang did not exist in today’s Wuhan. . . . What would we have heard? What would we have seen?” asked writer Ya…
Abingdon, UK. Routledge. 2019. 293 pages. BEYOND EAST AND WEST: A Story of Civilization through the Great Epics, by Suchethana Swaroop, is an attempt to shed light o…
London. Faber & Faber. 2019. 239 pages. “WHAT IS NORMAL tea?” Henrietta Lovell, the founder of the Rare Tea Company, wants you to reflect on this question. Hers is a white silver…
New York. Spuyten Duyvil. 2020. 222 pages. SMART, BITING, VIOLENT, and often perplexing, this memoir is reminiscent of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place. Beyond the authors hav…
New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2020. 304 pages. LÁSZLO F. FÖLDÉNYI is a widely lauded Hungarian essayist, cultural critic, and professor at the University of Theatre,…
New York. Other Press. 2020. 275 pages. DRESSED FOR A DANCE IN THE SNOW represents a work of oral history based on interviews the author conducted with nine female survivors…
Montreal. Drawn & Quarterly. 2020. 368 pages. THIS GRAPHIC NARRATIVE begins in the uncertain days after the Khmer Rouge takeover of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Author and artist Tian Ve…
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
New York. Crown. 2020. 585 pages. AFTER READING this study and skimming the end sections, I stand in awe: what one man can research, consolidate, and narrate in prose that reads like…
New York. Grove Press. 2020. 209 pages. YAN LIANKE'S Three Brothers: Memories of My Family is a powerful portrait of the trials of daily life in Song County, Henan Province,…
London. Honford Star. 2020. 182 pages. WHAT IS LOCAL IDENTITY? What have we lost in the name of development? How do we best pass on traditional culture to the next ge…