Pierre Joris, a poet and translator who tackled some of the 20th century’s most difficult verse, rendering into English the complex work of the German-Romanian poet...
Memories fade. Documentation disappears. Scenes vanish. When you’re busy creating a world, you don’t always think about how to preserve it for history. So old fliers...
When Samaiya Mushtaq was growing up, she imagined marrying a kind Muslim man, and at 21, she did. But while studying to become a psychiatrist in...
THE DREAM HOTEL, by Laila Lalami “The Dream Hotel,” the fifth novel by the acclaimed Moroccan American writer Laila Lalami, is set in a near-future reality...
THE TROUBLE OF COLOR: An American Family Memoir, by Martha S. Jones When Martha S. Jones was a student at SUNY New Paltz, she took a...
In “Zero Sum,” Hecker lays bare the callous thinking of foreigners who raked in their profits and turned a blind eye to Russia’s deteriorating political situation....
THE UNWORTHY, by Agustina Bazterrica; translated by Sarah Moses Writers have long been preoccupied with the end of the world, though perhaps it would be more...
For years before she published “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee wrote short stories with themes that she would later explore in that now-classic novel: small...
SUCKER PUNCH: Essays, by Scaachi Koul NO FAULT: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce, by Haley Mlotek I can’t recall the first time I saw “The...
She is, in her telling, the kind of person who gets mistaken for the staff at book festivals. People walk up to her out of the...
