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  We Lived Inside Sadness Itself

  On Brenda Navarro’s novel ‘Eating Ashes,’ newly translated by Megan McDowell.

  Cory OldweilerJan 20

  • Fiction

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  Haunted by Silence

  In Elisa Shua Dusapin’s novel ‘The Old Fire,’ newly translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins, two sisters must find a way to communicate without words.

  Grace LindenJan 20

  • Fiction

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  What Vallejo Do You Want?

  Dean Rader considers César Vallejo’s ‘The Eternal Dice: Selected Poems,’ recently translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

  Dean RaderJan 19

  • Poetry

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  Great Maestros of the Human Heart

  Larry Wolff attends the October 2025 Parma Verdi Festival to write about ‘Macbeth,’ ‘Otello,’ and ‘Falstaff.’

  Larry WolffJan 17

  • Music

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  Daddy Reissues

  Dinah Brooke’s 1971 debut novel ‘Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady,’ newly reissued, explores a young woman’s journey to realizing that ‘we should give up the charade’ of ‘heterosexual relationships and the bourgeois family structure.’

  Sophie PooleJan 17

  • Fiction

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  Not Exactly a Thesis

  Brais Lamela explores fiction, history, and the slipperiness of the nonfiction novel in ‘What Remains,’ newly translated by Jacob Rogers.

  Michael BarronJan 15

  • Literary Criticism

  • Fiction

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  Science on Ice

  Neil Shubin’s stories of polar exploration tell us about the losses ahead.

  Marissa GrunesJan 13

  • Science & Technology

  • Environment

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  A Guide to Living in and with Nature

  What the ancients can teach us about cultivating a sustainable world.

  Kurt CaswellJan 13

  • Philosophy & Religion

  • Environment

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  Toward a Feminism Without Gender

  Monique Wittig’s novels ‘The Lesbian Body’ and ‘Across the Acheron’ have just received new editions that reflect the feminist thinker’s ongoing cultural impact.

  Gabriel Ojeda-SaguéJan 12

  • Fiction

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Dangerous, Decadent Depths

  John Knych dissects Hiron Ennes’s ‘The Works of Vermin.’

  John KnychJan 12

  • SF

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  Made for Strength

  Irene Katz Connelly argues for a new approach to witch hysteria via two recent novels, Olga Ravn’s ‘The Wax Child’ and Irene Solà’s ‘I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness.’

  Irene Katz ConnellyJan 10

  • SF

  • Politics

  • Gender & Sexuality

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   The Toxic Landscapes of War

  Gregg Mitman looks at the bodily damage that soldiers take home in Joshua Howe and Alexander Lemons’s ‘Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare.’

  Gregg Mitman Jan 8

  • Environment

  • Politics

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