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Language at the End of the World
Sarah Yanni considers Rosie Stockton’s new book of poems, “Fuel.”
All Reviews
A Last Resort
Cory Oldweiler considers German author Franziska Gänsler’s debut novel, “Eternal Summer,” newly translated by Imogen Taylor.
Making Art Under Fascism
Kai Maristed reviews the new translation of Austro-German author Daniel Kehlmann’s 2023 novel “The Director,” translated by Ross Benjamin.
The Teeming Earth
Bathsheba Demuth reviews Ferris Jabr’s “Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life.”
Listening to the Nonhuman World: On Including Other Life-Forms in Politics
In this first of a two-part essay, Jonathan Blake considers recent books on the political rights of nonhuman beings.
How Librarians Found Themselves on the Front Line of the Culture War
Melina Moe considers Amanda Jones’s “That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America.”
An Irishman’s Love Letter to Saigon
Mary Kay Magistad investigates Connla Stokes’s “Falling for Saigon.”
Because We Care
Danielle Chelosky reviews Constance Debré’s “Name,” translated by Lauren Elkin.
Premodern Chinese Literature Can Be Trendy Too
Maddalena Poli explores the new series from Oxford University Press, Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature.
From Plague to Palate
B. K. Fischer reviews Maggie Nelson’s “Pathemata, or The Story of My Mouth.”
Modernity’s Slumber Factory
Ian Ellison considers Sebastian P. Klinger’s “Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899–1929.”
Sitting with the Grief
Jenna N. Hanchey explores the recent anthology “Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction,” edited by Eugen Bacon.
The Dialectic Lurking Behind the Brutality
Ieva Jusionyte digs into Greg Grandin’s “America, América: A New History of the New World.”
Gulf of América
Esther Allen reviews Greg Grandin’s “America, América: A New History of the New World.”
We All Inhabit This Small Planet
Heather Cass White considers David Szalay’s latest novel, “Flesh.”
“We’re All Chinese, Aren’t We?”
Jessie Lau ponders Emily Feng’s “Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China.”
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