Around the World

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

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Let Us Rejoice While We Are Young
Maria Rybakova reviews Mircea Eliade's early novel "Gaudeamus," recently translated by Christopher Bartholomew and released by Istros Books.
Maria RybakovaAug 11, 2018
A Public Voice for Private Grief
A global survey of official inquiries into the phenomenon of sexual abuse.
Arthur McCaffreyAug 10, 2018
The Lone and Level Sands
A lively history of an underappreciated resource.
David AstrofskyAug 7, 2018
Revisions of Resistance in Beatriz Bracher’s “I Didn’t Talk”
Bracher’s slim, dense novel lingers in the eddies of personal memory and historical reckoning.
Victoria BaenaAug 7, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
A Kitchen Window Peepshow: Eating Wildly and Traveling Widely with Lesley Blanch
Caroline Eden relishes the food writing of Lesley Blanch, author of the recently republished “Journey into the Mind’s Eye.”
Caroline EdenAug 4, 2018
- Around the World
- Food & Drink
“Places We Actually Go”: Three Irish Poets’ Debuts
James O’Sullivan reviews collections by Roisin Kelly, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, and Elaine Cosgrove.
James O’SullivanAug 3, 2018
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- Poetry
Watching a Country Unravel, One Person at a Time: An Intimate Account of Syria’s Civil War
A new, in-depth history of the Syrian Civil War puts a human face on an intractable conflict.
Najwa al-QattanAug 3, 2018
Toward A Different Solution: Édouard Louis, Émile Zola, and the Literary Accusation
Benjamin S. Bernard and Colton Valentine on “Qui a tué mon père” (Who Killed My Father), a novel by French author and public intellectual Édouard Louis.
Benjamin Bernard, Colton ValentineAug 2, 2018
The Useless French Language and Why We Learn It
Colin Marshall examines English speakers’ relationship to the French language, which is the subject of a growing number of books.
Colin MarshallAug 2, 2018
- Around the World
- Cultural Studies
Seeking Justice at All Costs, from Colombia to Central America
A new book on Latin American corruption shows that the death squads of the 1980s never really died.
Danielle MackeyAug 1, 2018
- Around the World
- Politics
The Degradations of Empire
Adrian Van Young reviews “A Necessary Evil” by Abir Mukherjee.
Adrian Van YoungJul 30, 2018
- Around the World
- Noir
García Márquez Slept Here
A writer discovers a surprising history to her apartment and its connection to the Latin American Boom in literature.
Lucía BenavidesJul 28, 2018
- Around the World
- 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