University of Arkansas Press. 2025. 138 pages.There is nothing simple about explaining who Kurds are and what struggles they have survived. Furthermore, Kurdish literature has histori…
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Penguin Press. 2025. 128 pages.Growing up, my father instilled in me a love for the films of German filmmaker Werner Herzog, especially his beautiful earlier works with the infamous K… -
Red Hen Press. 2025. 181 pages.At the heart of Adrianne Kalfopoulou’s The re in refuge is the experience of crossing borders—primarily international, cultural, and l… -
Canongate Books. 2025. 288 pages.“Human civilization,” David Farrier tells us in the opening pages of his book, “is now the world’s greatest evolutionary force.” Looking at the impact… -
W.W. Norton. 2025. 334 pages.Christopher Marlowe, son of a cobbler, obtained an MA from Cambridge through the political intervention of the Privy Council, gave up studies for the prie… -
Cambridge University Press. 2025. 322 pages.For anyone who has ever wondered where dictionaries come from, Ilan Stavans’s Conversations on Dictionaries: The Universe in a Book… -
Graywolf Press. 2026. 264 pages.Pulitzer Prize–winning author Cristina Rivera Garza desperately wants to paint for us the tortured lives of her grandparents and great-grandparents who… -
Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales. 2025. 336 pages.For over twenty years, Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales has been publishing not only the finest works of Chilean literature—p… -
Alfaguara. 2025. 224 pages.Héctor Abad Faciolince’s latest book is a personal account of the author’s firsthand experience in the war between Russia and Ukraine. On June 27, 2023, a m… -
Other Press. 2025. 240 pages.If you know anything about the history of Israel/Palestine, you know that one of the first things that happened after the creation of the new state of Isr… -
Fantagraphics Books. 2025. 232 pages.Grief is common and yet unique—it happens to everyone and yet is never experienced in the same manner. Imagine how difficult it is to capture the… -
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2025. 440 pages.At the start of this fascinating and sumptuously illustrated book, Adam Nicolson admits that, with the exception of seabirds—an early love… -
Prototype. 2025. 280 pages.Over the past three years, English-language readers have enjoyed an increase in the number of single-authored publications by literary translators on transl… -
Penguin Books. 2025. 208 pages.“The concept of apurnata (incompleteness) cannot be understood without recognizing the significance of ‘a.’ . . . In… -
Scribner. 2025. 352 pages.I don’t know if my conflicted feelings about my mother would have ever found language had I not discovered mother-daughter memoirs unflinchingly exploring th… -
Metropolitan Books. 2025. 144 pages.In September 2013 a riot raged through the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, claiming over dozens of lives and injuring hundreds more. Journalist-cart… -
DoppelHouse Press. 2025. 278 pages.Some books arrive as testimonies, others as warnings. Hadi Abdullah’s Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution is both: the S… -
Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2024. 344 pages.Matthew Kilbane’s The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media explores the intersections of lyric poetry and evolving techno… -
Trans. Martha Kuhlman. University Park, Pennsylvania. Graphic Mundi. 2025. 231 pages.Ever since the publication of the first volume of Art Spiegelman’s Maus in 1986, the grap… -
Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 2024. 857 pages.In a study of the essay published over a century before this one, Hugh Walker’s The English Essay and Essayists (1915),… -
Abiquiú, New Mexico. Casa Urraca Press. 2025. 96 pages.The book Hearts in Motion, Hearts in Place: The Quest for Querencias on Turtle Island and Abya Yala, by border… -
New York. Bloomsbury Academic. 2025. 184 pages.There’s a peculiar electricity in reading Suzanne Jill Levine’s new memoir when you, too, are a translator of Latin American prose. For… -
New York. Riverhead Books. 2025. 240 pages.The travel writer Pico Iyer broaches the paradox of learning from silence even while traveling. In Aflame: Learning from Silence, I… -
New York. Liveright. 2025. 144 pages.There is no word for the color blue in the isiXhosa language. This is interesting but not important—for millennia, isiXhosa speakers have lived on… -
New York. New Press. 2025. 224 pages.Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas is a collection of essays authored by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938–2025) that intricately…