Around the World

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

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Il Accuse: On “Who Killed My Father” by Édouard Louis
Kevin O’Rourke on the personal and the political in “Who Killed My Father” by Édouard Louis.
Kevin O’RourkeApr 9, 2019
The Good Doctor: On Maxim Osipov’s “Rock, Paper, Scissors”
Bob Blaisdell appreciates “Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories” by Maxim Osipov, translated by Boris Dralyuk, Alex Fleming, and Anne Marie Jackson.
Bob BlaisdellApr 9, 2019
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- Fiction
The Self-Development of Truth: A Conversation with Maxim Osipov
Daniel Medin interviews the Russian author Maxim Osipov, whose English-language debut, “Rock, Paper, Scissors, an Other Stories,” is out with NYRB Classics.
Daniel MedinApr 9, 2019
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- Fiction
The Kaiser’s Trial: How a Case that Never Happened Helped Create the International Criminal Justice System
Mark Ellis reviews William A. Schabas's meticulously researched and gripping "The Trial of the Kaiser."
Mark EllisApr 8, 2019
The Secret Song of Water: From Coleridge to Darwish
Fady Joudah reflects on water as substance, poetic subject, and way of life.
Fady JoudahApr 8, 2019
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- Poetry
Unwieldy Inheritances: On Olga Slavnikova’s Novel of New Russia, Read in New America
Leeore Schnairsohn takes the pulse of “The Man Who Couldn’t Die,” a novel by Olga Slavnikova, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz.
Leeore SchnairsohnApr 7, 2019
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- Fiction
Documenting the Mimaroğlus: Electronic Tape Music and the Turkish Émigré Avant-Garde
To listen to Ilhan Mimaroğlu’s music is to be struck by the multitude of voices, geographies, and struggles with which he was engaged.
Helen MackreathApr 6, 2019
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- Music
Writing on Water: A Conversation with Daisy Johnson on “Everything Under”
Amy E. Elkins talks to Daisy Johnson about her new novel, "Everything Under," which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Amy E. ElkinsApr 6, 2019
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- Fiction
The Free Labor Force of Wives: A Conversation with French Feminist Writer Christine Delphy
Annie Hylton talks to French feminist Christine Delphy about domestic labor and #MeToo.
Annie HyltonApr 5, 2019
When We Were Brothers: On the Writing of Daša Drndić
Lydia Perović considers the fundamental way in which the Yugoslav 1940s war of liberation structures and haunts all of Daša Drndić’s books.
Lydia PerovićApr 4, 2019
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- Fiction
Letter from Chernobyl
On the front lines of dark tourism.
Joshua KuceraApr 1, 2019
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- Nonfiction
Go Home and Keep Going: On David Bezmozgis’s “Immigrant City”
Ian Ross Singleton dwells in “Immigrant City,” the latest collection of stories by David Bezmozgis.
Ian Ross SingletonMar 31, 2019
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- Fiction

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