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Poring Over “Single Malt: A Guide to the Whiskies of Scotland”
John T. Scott samples “Single Malt: A Guide to the Whiskies of Scotland” by Clay Risen.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
A Soviet Becky Sharp: On Margarita Khemlin’s “Klotsvog”
Phoebe Taplin takes stock of “Klotsvog,” a “devastating, bleakly comic” novel by Margarita Khemlin, translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden.
The Sorrow of Soviet Poetry: On Lev Ozerov’s “Portraits Without Frames”
Tom Teicholz looks at “Portraits Without Frames” by Lev Ozerov.
Fake News in Weimar Germany: Gabriele Tergit’s “Käsebier Takes Berlin”
Ben Sandman considers Sophie Duvernoy’s new translation of “Käsebier Takes Berlin” by Gabriele Tergit.
Has Art Anything to Do with Life?: A Conversation with Ali Smith on “Spring”
Amy E. Elkins discusses “Spring” with novelist Ali Smith.
Neighboring, Yet Alien: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos
A celebrated Greek poet limns the beauty and inventiveness of Los Angeles’s Skid Row.
“Dear House, Don’t Burn”: On Svetlana Alexievich’s “Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II”
Heather Altfeld listens to the voices in “Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II” by Svetlana Alexievich.
No Memorial: On Gary Fuller’s “The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution — and How We Can Fight Back”
Linda Roland Danil investigates "The Invisible Killer" by Gary Fuller.
The Long Journey to the US Border
Human Rights Watch researcher Jonathan Pedneault discusses his time in Tijuana, Mexico, at the US Border.
No Monster Story Ever Stays Static: “American Monsters Part I,” Edited by Margrét Helgadóttir
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is haunted by "American Monsters Part I," a new anthology edited by Margrét Helgadóttir.
Tough Fighters Hanging on in Vietnam
Key indigenous allies of the U.S. during the Vietnam War were treated shamefully after the withdrawal by both the United States and communist Vietnam.
The Pleasure of Momentum, the Heat of Containment: On “The Remainder” by Alia Trabucco Zerán
Nathan Scott McNamara reads "The Remainder" by Alia Trabucco Zerán, out now in a translation from Sophie Hughes.
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