Gina Tam reviews “Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong,” edited by Holmes Chan....

A brave and controversial activist was assassinated in South Lebanon. What does his death mean for a country already on the brink?...

Two new novels of the Arab diaspora capture the traumas of migration and displacement....

Anandi Mishra discusses the recent docuseries “Pretend It’s a City” through the lens of the flâneur and her own experiences walking through rural India....

Yxta Maya Murray dives into the recent English-language translation of Pola Oloixarac’s “Mona.”...

Thomas Chen on Ai Xiaoming’s Wuhan lockdown “counter-diary.”...

Japan’s remote northeast struggles, a decade after the tsunami hit....

The sickened groans of Mexico and the United States are sublimations of remembering, forgetting, and constantly inventing national narratives....

Ben Libman traverses “Marshlands” by André Gide, recently translated by Damion Searls and released by NYRB Classics....

Linda Kinstler ponders “In Memory of Memory,” a book-length essay by the Russian poet Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale....

David Bentley Hart on Goethe....

Federico Perelmuter considers “The Dangers of Smoking in Bed,” the new short story collection by Mariana Enríquez and translated by Megan McDowell....

Uilleam Blacker is captivated by “‘Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul’: Mykola (Nik) Bazhan’s Early Experimental Poetry.”...

Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli discusses literature and life under de facto house arrest....

Richard M. Cho digs up “Cowboy Graves,” the recently published collection of novellas by Roberto Bolaño and translated by Natasha Wimmer....

On two major 20th-century women novelists and their shared experience of exile....

Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement.”...