Stuck with Them: An Interview with Oyinkan Braithwaite
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ interviews Oyinkan Braithwaite about her new novel, “My Sister, The Serial Killer.”
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“Two Catalonias”’s Pact of Forgetting
“Two Catalonias” makes no mention of the Spanish Civil War, an elision that is representative of Spain’s refusal to contend with the war’s lasting effects.
Identity Across the Diaspora: A Conversation with Wayétu Moore
A Liberian-American novelist discusses pan-Africanism and the power of black bodies.
Housekeeping’s Patron Saint
"Roma" is a movie made to appease the ruling class: fawning in its praise of power, it dead-ends at an image that literally deifies servitude.
Restoring a Wartime Master: On Irene Guenther’s “Postcards from the Trenches”
Ann Murray looks at “Postcards from the Trenches: A German Soldier’s Testimony of the Great War” by Irene Guenther.
Art and Dissent in Singapore: An Interview with Seelan Palay
Krithika Varagur speaks to Singaporean artist Seelan Palay about censorship, institutional critique, and the Southeast Asian art world.
A Film by Bertolt Brecht
"Mack the Knife — Brecht’s Threepenny Film" is part-biopic, part-homage, part-metacinematic staging of a film that shouldn’t actually exist — but now does.
A Patient Observation of Human Beings
Fabien Truong’s book is a thoughtful, well-crafted ethnography that humanizes the faceless, amorphous “Muslim youth” of the French banlieues.
In Multiplicity Is Truth: An Interview with Gina Apostol
Gina Apostol discusses her new novel about the Philippine resistance to American occupation.
A Winter’s Tale: The Impossibility of Friedrich Gorenstein’s “Redemption”
Leeore Schnairsohn plumbs the depths of “Redemption,” a novel by Friedrich Gorenstein, translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield.
Korean Pastoral: On Yeon-sik Hong’s “Uncomfortably Happily”
Yeon-sik Hong’s delightful and challenging graphic memoir "Uncomfortably Happily" at once seems to adhere to the Western pastoral tradition and to upend it
Game of Obsession: The Eternal Question of Chess
Chess emerges as the new mixed martial arts in an exciting new book.
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