Athens. University of Georgia Press. 2020. 185 pages.
THE MOTIF OF DANCING is central to Sejal Shah’s memorable collection of essays about growing up “Indian outside of India, in non…
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New Haven. Yale University Press. 2020. 302 pages. “THE MISERY OF VENICE stands there for all the world to see,” Henry James wrote in Italian Hours, “a thoroughgoing de… -
Philadelphia. Paul Dry Books. 2021. 184 pages. AS THE TITLE SUGGESTS, this book of memoirs recounts the author’s interactions with Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Fitzgerald, and John Cheev… -
Caption Bautzen, Germany. Domowina-Verlag. 2020. 191 pages. IN 2003, THE VILLAGE CHURCH in Horno/Rogow, Germany, was “beheaded.” The steeple of its church was cut off, emptied of… -
Brooklyn. Ugly Duckling Presse. 2020. 45 pages. WE MAY THINK OF THE pamphlet as an obsolete genre and format, the kind libraries and archives collect and educated readers associate w… -
Montreal. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2020. 511 pages. THE MONOLITH OF American history often overshadows the continent’s early multiculturalism. This is especially true of the… -
London. Fitzcarraldo Editions. 500 pages. THE LITERATURE OF MEMORY often explores what consciousness is stored in and speaks from objects. Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu… -
London. Granta. 2020. 352 pages. FRANCES LARSON IS AN anthropologist at the University of Durham and the author of three books on anthropologists, collectors of artifacts, and behead… -
New York. Archipelago Books. 2021. 350 pages. IN HIS NEW COLLECTION of essays, In the Land of the Cyclops, Karl Ove Knausgaard continues to use writing as… -
New York. Knopf. 2020. 1152 pages. OVER THE YEARS I’VE approached each new biography of Sylvia Plath hoping for a fully comprehensive account of her life that would portray her as th… -
Miami. Alfaguara. 2020. 108 pages. MEDIO SIGLO CON BORGES is a compilation of interviews, essays, and reviews written by Mario Vargas Llosa about Jorge Luis Borges over five… -
New York. New York Review Books. 2021. 253 pages. IF FICTION IS “CREATED,” then nonfiction is surely “found.” Criticism is a hunt for flaws and virtues, history spotted in the wind-m… -
New York. Penguin Press. 2021. 304 pages. THIS WORK IS A wonderful addition to the recent scholarship that reevaluates the role of the Black Church in the development of African Amer… -
New York. Columbia University Press. 2020. 384 pages. BEHIND EVERY GREAT novel there seems to be a great creation story: William Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying in eight weeks… -
Dallas, Texas. Deep Vellum. 2020. 415 pages. FOWZIA KARIMI’S Above Us the Milky Way is a complex mix of memory and fiction, telling the story of the dead, the living, a… -
New York. Viking. 2020. 304 pages. “MY AMERICAN LIFE started with loss.” With that sentence, Lan Cao opens this memoir told in alternating narratives with her daughter, Harlan… -
London. Chelsea Green. 2020. 208 pages. READERS OF NATURALIST nonfiction will feel at home in Derek Gow’s Bringing Back the Beaver. They will find familiar elements: narrati… -
Charlottesville. University of Virginia Press. 2020. 128 pages. THIS UNIQUE BOOK by memoirist and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn traces with deep learning and imagination the relation… -
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… -
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 boo… -
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… -
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… -
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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.… -
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 intro…