The Reverberations of Time: A Conversation with Nicole Simek
Nicole Simek discusses the challenges of translating Maryse Condé’s novel “The Belle Créole.”
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
The Language of Self-Discovery: On Jessica J. Lee’s “Two Trees Make a Forest”
An environmental memoir about Taiwan, family, and language.
The Kids Want Communism: A Conversation with Joshua Simon
Joshua Simon talks about his years-long art project that celebrates the archival histories of communism.
Julian Barnes’s Anti-Brexit Belle Époque
A novel about a 19th-century French gynecologist tells us about life in the Brexit era.
The Story Is Her Ancestors: On Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s “That Hair”
Anita Felicelli reviews “That Hair,” the recently released novel from Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida.
Teaching American Studies in the Middle East
Suzanne Enzerink on teaching American culture and politics in Lebanon.
Home in the Hinterlands: On Robin Hemley’s “Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood”
A reporting trip to topographical curiosities sheds light on what it means to be a world citizen.
Going Global: The Literature That Slavery Makes
Crystal Parikh reviews “Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery,” the new book from Yogita Goyal.
Lowering into a Dark Pool: On An Yu’s “Braised Pork”
Piper French enjoys “Braised Pork,” the new novel by An Yu.
The Last Jewish Libertine: “Uncut Gems” and Jewish Masculinity Onscreen
Oleg Ivanov traces the filmic image of the masculine Jew from Elliott Gould to Adam Sandler.
A Set of Vicious Russian Nesting Dolls: On Varlam Shalamov’s “Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories”
Patrick Kurp reads and rereads “Sketches of the Criminal World,” the second volume of Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma stories translated by Donald Rayfield.
The Provincial Reader
Sumana Roy reflects on the loss — or the proliferation — of the provincial reader.
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