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Cold War Cold Files
A Hungarian author confronts his parents’ Cold War past.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Writing Algeria
Kamel Daoud is a brilliant, indeed dazzling, thinker: his sharp turns in thought and language, as well as his subject matter, gave me motion sickness.
A Polish Snow Globe: On Adam Mickiewicz’s “Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania”
Josh Billings revels in Bill Johnston’s “meticulous” translation of “Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania” by the great Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz.
Look Again! A Conversation with Irish Artist-Novelist Sara Baume
Amy E. Elkins talks with artist-novelist Sara Baume about cross-media inspiration, scratch-made art, and miniaturization on the page.
The Motion of the Pestle
Liesl Schwabe reviews Gendun Chopel's "The Passion Book: A Tibetan Guide to Love & Sex."
The Great Red North
Gabriel Winant considers Barry Eidlin’s answer to the perennial question: why has leftism fared better in Canada?
Sexual Abuse and Critical Abuse: On Christian Kracht’s “The Dead”
Jan Wilm considers Christian Kracht's latest novel to be translated into English as well as how his critics misjudge his works.
The Intense Atmospheres of Language: Cristina Rivera Garza’s “The Taiga Syndrome”
The mystery that Rivera Garza’s detective confronts is framed by primordial fear, a horror that can't be accounted for even by the most radical fairy tales.
Does Capitalism Make Good Compost?: “Familiar Things,” Hwang Sok-yong’s Novel of Waste and Reclamation
A searing meditation on the cult of materialism, "Familiar Things" is a beautiful and almost uplifting parable about recovering things wantonly discarded.
The Whole Human Tapestry: Sjón’s Sprawling “CoDex 1962” Trilogy
Katharine Coldiron decodes Icelandic author Sjón’s “CoDex 1962,” a “risky, funny, sexy, entirely unique book.”
The Border-Security-Industrial Complex: A Conversation with Todd Miller
Gabriel Schivone talks with Todd Miller about the ties between US arms companies and the governments of Jordan and Israel.
Left in Polytheism
Can the Hindu left be revived?
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