“The Quiet Americans” Reveals the Un-American History of American Espionage
A history of Cold War failures as seen through the tragic careers of four American spies....
Cold War Mirrors
Shehryar Fazli reviews "The Quiet Americans," Scott Anderson's new history of the Cold War....
Allegories of Otherness: The Unnerving Isolation of Marie NDiaye’s “That Time of Year”
Nathan Scott McNamara appreciates "That Time of Year," the new novel by Marie NDiaye translated by Jordan Stump....
Pass Us the Post Horn: On Vigdis Hjorth’s “Long Live the Post Horn!”
Makenna Goodman reviews "Long Live the Post Horn!," the latest novel by Vigdis Hjorth to be translated into English....
The Light in Istanbul: On Orhan Pamuk’s “Orange”
The writer as photographer and flâneur, tracing the changing cityscape....
Unsafe Harbors: A Conversation with Nadia Terranova
The Italian novelist discusses embodiment and desire in fiction, and why she hates male feminists....
A Family Saga for the Anthropocene: On Zsuzsa Selyem’s “It’s Raining in Moscow”
The story of a posthuman Romanian farmer, told by a cat, a blackbird, a bedbug, and a hemlock tree....
Riding the Wave: The Steady Rise of Korean Manhwa
DW McKinney surveys the latest major works of manhwa to be published in the United States, including “Grass,” “Uncomfortably Happily,” and “Bad Friends.”...
Ghostly Presences in Addis Ababa: A Conversation with Maaza Mengiste
An interview with Maaza Mengiste, editor of “Addis Ababa Noir.”...
“This Decadent Western Thing”: Joanna Stingray on the Soviet Underground Rock Scene
The L.A. rocker on her experiences in the underground rock scene in pre-glasnost Russia....
German Pigs and the Autocrats Who Loved Them
“Communist Pigs” advances the swine history of Germany, taking readers to the era of authoritarian rule in the GDR....
Greece, Cut and Dried
Piper French reviews "The Passenger: Greece," the new essay collection from Europa Editions and Iperborea....
