Love and Revolution: On Sonallah Ibrahim’s “Warda”
Informed by extensive historical research, this complicated political tale is told as a personal quest.
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Informed by extensive historical research, this complicated political tale is told as a personal quest.
Recent events in the American labor movement make Geissler’s 2014 book newly relevant.
Mieko Kawakami’s novel “Heaven” explores the sufferings and cruelties of adolescence.
This elliptical memoir is the first English translation of a major modern Italian author.
Alfred Döblin’s 1924 futuristic dystopian novel “Mountains Oceans Giants: An Epic of the 27th Century” is really a history of the present.
“The Darkroom” is a critique of aesthetics and politics, and a meditation on the end of the world.
In Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutext Trilogy, the hero is the posse.
The “literal meaning” of a sacred text does not exist separate from rabbinic opinion.
A psychedelic, absurdist parable about getting in touch with our animal selves.
The Argentinian feminist poet had a harsh, yet oddly hopeful, view of humanity.
Lispector confronts the pleasures and perils of the aging female body with startling honesty.
Billy Wilder imagined America in writing before he ever set foot in Hollywood.