Growing in All DirectionsTwo new novels of the Arab diaspora capture the traumas of migration and displacement....ZAHRA HANKIRAROUND THE WORLDFICTION
Walking with FranAnandi Mishra discusses the recent docuseries “Pretend It’s a City” through the lens of the flâneur and her own experiences walking through rural India....ANANDI MISHRAAROUND THE WORLD
Love and the Literary Leviathan: On Pola Oloixarac’s “Mona”Yxta Maya Murray dives into the recent English-language translation of Pola Oloixarac’s “Mona.”...YXTA MAYA MURRAYAROUND THE WORLDFICTION
Ai Xiaoming and the Quarantine Counter-DiaryThomas Chen on Ai Xiaoming’s Wuhan lockdown “counter-diary.”...THOMAS CHENAROUND THE WORLD
The Dialectics of March 11: A Decade After the Japan TsunamiJapan’s remote northeast struggles, a decade after the tsunami hit....M. W. LARSONAROUND THE WORLD
Pandemic Death Narratives of Mexico and the United StatesThe sickened groans of Mexico and the United States are sublimations of remembering, forgetting, and constantly inventing national narratives....RAFAEL LUÉVANOAROUND THE WORLD
Not Not Realism: On André Gide’s “Marshlands”Ben Libman traverses “Marshlands” by André Gide, recently translated by Damion Searls and released by NYRB Classics....BEN LIBMANAROUND THE WORLDFICTION
The Altar of Oblivion: On Maria Stepanova’s “In Memory of Memory”Linda Kinstler ponders “In Memory of Memory,” a book-length essay by the Russian poet Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale....LINDA KINSTLERAROUND THE WORLDMEMOIR & ESSAY
Glorious Cultural PromiscuityDavid Bentley Hart on Goethe....DAVID BENTLEY HARTAROUND THE WORLDPOETRY
Democracy Is No Utopia: On Mariana Enríquez’s “The Dangers of Smoking in Bed”Federico Perelmuter considers “The Dangers of Smoking in Bed,” the new short story collection by Mariana Enríquez and translated by Megan McDowell....FEDERICO PERELMUTERAROUND THE WORLDFICTION
“Locks of Sorrows”: On Mykola Bazhan’s Early PoetryUilleam Blacker is captivated by “‘Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul’: Mykola (Nik) Bazhan’s Early Experimental Poetry.”...UILLEAM BLACKERAROUND THE WORLDPOLITICSPOETRY
Burning Books: Akram Aylisli on Literature and Cultural MemoryAzerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli discusses literature and life under de facto house arrest....AKRAM AYLISLI, KATHERINE E. YOUNGAROUND THE WORLDPOLITICS
Blueprint for Masterworks: On Roberto Bolaño’s “Cowboy Graves”Richard M. Cho digs up “Cowboy Graves,” the recently published collection of novellas by Roberto Bolaño and translated by Natasha Wimmer....RICHARD M. CHOAROUND THE WORLDFICTION
The Headless Woman: On Susan Taubes and Clarice LispectorOn two major 20th-century women novelists and their shared experience of exile....JULIA KORNBERGAROUND THE WORLDFICTION
Black Germans and the Politics of Diaspora: On Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany”Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement.”...SAMUEL CLOWES HUNEKEAROUND THE WORLDPOLITICSHISTORYGENDER & SEXUALITY
Subverting the Canon of Patriarchy: Lesya Ukrainka’s Revisionist MythmakingSasha Dovzhyk celebrates the radical feminism of the great Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka on the 150th anniversary of her birth....SASHA DOVZHYKAROUND THE WORLDGENDER & SEXUALITYPOETRY
Submersion: The Sensory-Heightened Fiction of Elvira NavarroNathan Scott McNamara explores “Rabbit Island,” the new short story collection by Elvira Navarro and translated by Christina MacSweeney....NATHAN SCOTT MCNAMARAAROUND THE WORLDFICTION
Vulnerable Outsiders: On D. A. Mishani’s “Three”Alex Genty-Waksberg reviews D. A. Mishani’s “Three,” translated by Jessica Cohen....ALEX GENTY-WAKSBERGAROUND THE WORLDNOIR
Freethinkers Versus the Monsterverse: An Excerpt from “The New Enlightenment”LARB presents an excerpt from Peter B. Kaufman’s “The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge.”...PETER B. KAUFMANAROUND THE WORLDHISTORYCULTURAL STUDIES
An Empire of Stupidity: On Dubravka Ugrešić’s “The Age of Skin”A celebrated Croatian cultural critic exposes the thin skin of contemporary democracy....NINA HERZOGAROUND THE WORLDPOLITICSMEMOIR & ESSAY
Star Vehicle: On Translating PoetryPolish poet Tomasz Różycki reflects on his craft of translation, in an essay translated by Mira Rosen-thal....TOMASZ RÓŻYCKI, MIRA ROSENTHALAROUND THE WORLDLITERARY CRITICISMPOETRY
Signs of Life in a Surreal World: A Conversation with Charlotte Mandell on Breton and Soupault’s “The Magnetic Fields”Paul Maziar talks with Charlotte Mandell about her new translation of Breton and Soupault’s “The Magnetic Fields.”...PAUL MAZIARAROUND THE WORLDPOETRY
Moving Houses: A Conversation with Zenobia FrostKate Durbin interviews Zenobia Frost about her new book, “After the Demolition.”...KATE DURBINAROUND THE WORLDPOETRY
Ted and SylviaA newly translated novel by a major Dutch author tackles the relationship between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath....OLENA JENNINGSAROUND THE WORLDFICTION
