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The Light of the Bosphorus: Orhan Pamuk’s Photography in “Balkon”
In "Balkon," Pamuk relies on photography to provide context as well as archival evidence. The photographs become part of the process of writing.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Whose Eyes Are These?
The Gypsy Girl, however, is nothing but eyes. No part of her makes her foreign or insists on her difference. She is whatever you would like her to be.
Life in Stasis: Behrouz Boochani’s Manus Prison Literature
A harrowing book about refugees in Australian detention reveals much about the national character.
Remnants and Revenants: On “The Full Pomegranate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever”
Marc Caplan marvels at “The Full Pomegranate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever,” translated from the Yiddish by Richard J. Fein.
The Catalan Paradox, Part III: A Conversation with Peter Bush
A series of conversations on the state of Catalan literature.
The Sea Is Not Anonymous: On Jeffrey S. Kahn’s “Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire”
One of the strangest and most contentious borders in US history is the watery one with Haiti.
The Monster Within: On Two New Books About Chernobyl
Two new books trace the chilling story of the Chernobyl reactor.
The New Madame Bovary: Leila Slimani’s “Adèle”
Stephanie Sy-Quia reviews Leïla Slimani's novel "Adèle," which is "masterfully taut and entirely gripping."
“There Is Too Much Feminism”: On the Rise of the Mauritian Alt-Right
Ariel Saramandi chronicles the rise of the Mauritian alt-right.
Poems for an Uncertain World: On Serhiy Zhadan’s “What We Live For, What We Die For”
Amelia Glaser recommends “What We Live For, What We Die For: Selected Poems” by Serhiy Zhadan, translated from Ukrainian by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps.
Scientific Rebirth
“Genesis 2.0” is a panoramic master class in the strange unmodernity of modern science.
Where Is Deconstruction Today?: On Jacques Derrida’s “Theory and Practice” and Byung-Chul Han’s “Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese”
Gregory Jones-Katz considers the legacy of deconstruction.
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