Around the World

"For a long time now I haven't been I."

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Seeds of Catastrophe: “The Rosewater Insurrection” and “The Rosewater Redemption”
Jessica FitzPatrick reviews the last two books in Tade Thompson's Wormwood Trilogy.
Jessica FitzPatrickFeb 29, 2020
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- SF
The Meaning of Isolation: On María Sonia Cristoff’s “Include Me Out”
Joel Pinckney reviews "Include Me Out," a novel by María Sonia Cristoff, translated from Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Joel PinckneyFeb 28, 2020
- Around the World
- Fiction
Also About Birds: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Colum McCann’s “Apeirogon”
Ben Libman reviews "Apeirogon," the new book from Irish writer Colum McCann.
Ben LibmanFeb 28, 2020
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- Fiction
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry: Francesc Parcerisas and Ye Lijun
Lisa Russ Spaar takes a look at translated books by poets Francesc Parcerisas and Ye Lijun.
Lisa Russ SpaarFeb 26, 2020
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- Poetry
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.
Rayyan Al-ShawafFeb 25, 2020
- Around the World
- Fiction
More Death: On Mushroom Hunting and the Novels of Daša Drndić
Angela Woodward considers how hunting mushrooms can illuminate Daša Drndić’s fiction.
Angela WoodwardFeb 23, 2020
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.
Swagato ChakravortyFeb 22, 2020
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.
Giovanni VimercatiFeb 21, 2020
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- Fiction
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.
Gina FrangelloFeb 21, 2020
- Around the World
- Fiction
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.
Anne Anlin ChengFeb 21, 2020
- Around the World
- Film
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.
Jaymee GohFeb 20, 2020
- Around the World
- Fiction
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.”
Akanksha SinghFeb 19, 2020
- Around the World
- Poetry

Around the World

"For a long time now I haven't been I."— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"For a long time now I haven't been I."

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet