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…
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Newcastle upon Tyne. Cambridge Scholars. 2021. 206 pages. ROBERTO CANTÚ’S Homecoming Trails in Mexican American Cultural History is a welcome contribution for understanding… -
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 exac… -
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… -
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… -
Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton University Press. 2021. 448 pages. TRYING TO THEORIZE the beginnings of a phenomenon involves equal parts fascination and frustration; both… -
Medford, Massachusetts. Polity Press. 2021. 155 pages. MEMORY AND FORGETTING in the Digital Age is a descriptive subtitle for Italian philosopher Davide Sisto’… -
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 ren… -
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… -
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 challeng… -
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 rig… -
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 i… -
New York. Bloomsbury Academic. 2021. 183 pages. THIS MONOGRAPH’S overarching argument complements the burgeoning studies on translation by examining the heralded richness of con… -
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 reminiscence… -
Cham, Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. 122 pages. MORE THAN A book-length commentary on an Egyptian cinematic masterpiece, Barra and Zaman, part of the Palgra… -
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 t… -
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… -
London. Bloomsbury Continuum. 2021. 256 pages. ALEX CHRISTOFI’S ENTICING literary biography, Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life, takes a unique approach to the genre.… -
New York. Routledge. 2020. 432 pages. THE STUDY OF MINORITY groups and their cultural productions has generated many books and research papers, including Abdul R. JanMohamed and Davi… -
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2021. 464 pages. THE BIOGRAPHY OF an English professor who is known for eclectic bibliographies ignoring doctrinal lines would, ideally, draw on… -
London. Hurst. 2020. 367 pages. As events unfold in the Arabic-speaking Middle East, whether related to the Arab-Israeli conflict, to the war in Syria, or to Trump’s so-called deal o… -
New York. Grove Press. 2021. 272 pages. FLIGHT, MOVEMENT FROM place to place, past to present, border-crossings real and philosophical are central to award-winning Sierra Leonean nov… -
Oxford. Oxford University Press. 2020. 380 pages.IN HER INTRODUCTION to The Best American Essays 1992, Susan Sontag writes: “The culture administered by universities has… -
Chennai, India. Westland. 2020. 144 pages. MUCH OF INDIA’S LITERARY and cinematic worlds are geared up to celebrate with considerable enthusiasm the birth centenary of Sahir Ludhianv…