The Waiting Is the Hardest Part: Rodaan Al Galidi’s “Two Blankets, Three Sheets”
Rayyan Al-Shawaf reviews Rodaan Al Galidi’s novel “Two Blankets, Three Sheets,” translated by Jonathan Reeder....
More Death: On Mushroom Hunting and the Novels of Daša Drndić
Angela Woodward considers how hunting mushrooms can illuminate Daša Drndić’s fiction....
Out of the Waiting Room of History: Ritwik Ghatak’s Cinema of Partition
Swagato Chakravorty on the rediscovery of Ritwik Ghatak’s films, and what it says about how Western cultural institutions frame the idea of world cinema....
Love in the USSR: On Sonallah Ibrahim’s “Ice”
Giovanni Vimercati reviews “Ice,” the recently released novel by Sonallah Ibrahim in a translation by Margaret Litvin....
A Strange Equality in His Grandiosity: On Craft and Milan Kundera
Reading Milan Kundera is much less like reading philosophy or theory than it is like watching a psychological chess master play himself....
The Shell Game: From “Get Out” to “Parasite”
Juxtaposing "Get Out" and "Parasite" raises uneasy questions about how American audiences process racial injury versus economic injury....
The Ones We Know: The Malaysian Dream in Tash Aw’s “We, the Survivors”
Jaymee Goh considers “We, the Survivors,” a new novel from Tash Aw....
The Beats, the Hungryalists, and the Call of the East
Akanksha Singh considers Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury’s “The Hungryalists: The Poets Who Sparked a Revolution.”...
A Sane Man in a Demented Age: On Julian Barnes’s “The Man in the Red Coat”
Richard M. Cho appreciates "The Man in the Red Coat," the new biography of Samuel Jean Pozzi by Julian Barnes....
Man Seeking Doppelgänger: On Peter Stamm’s “The Sweet Indifference of the World”
Ben Sandman reviews Peter Stamm’s recently released novel “The Sweet Indifference of the World,” translated by Michael Hofmann....
On the Power of Sisterhood and the Limits of Nostalgia: An Interview with Brazilian Director Karim Aïnouz
Eileen G’Sell interviews Karim Aïnouz, director of “Invisible Life.”...
Just Dying for It: On Tolstoy’s “Lives and Deaths: Essential Stories”
Bob Blaisdell gets to the bottom of Leo Tolstoy’s “Lives and Deaths: Essential Stories,” translated by Boris Dralyuk....
