Anderson Tepper is co-chair of the International Committee of the Brooklyn Book Festival and curator of international literature at City of Asylum in Pittsburgh. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, and Words Without Borders, among other places.
Siphiwe Ndlovu. Photo by Joanne Olivier
If—as Booker Prize–winner Damon Galgut said—2021 was a good year for African writing, 2022 was especially good for Zimbabwean writers. I spoke with...
Over the past decade or so, the Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra (b. 1975) has emerged as one of the most inventive and influential writers of his generation. Named to Granta’s Best of Yo...
Author of The Famished Road, among other books, Ben Okri has never been a run-of-the-mill writer. He has been hailed as “a literary and social visionary,” and his oeuvre—novels, plays, poetr...
Amitava Kumar, The Heart of the City / A Cemetery / of Grief. Inspired by Naveen Kishore’s poem “Kashmiriyat” in his new collection, Knotted Grief.
Amitava Kumar—author,...
Eloghosa Osunde and Okwiri Oduor. Photo of Oduor by Chelsea Bieker.
It’s hard to argue with Booker Prize–winning author Damon Galgut’s assertion that 2021 was “a great year for African wri...
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s astonishing debut novel, The House of Rust,winner of the inaugural Graywolf Press Africa Prize, arrived in October as if on a magical wave, imbued wit...
Emilio Fraia’s Sevastopol, out this summer from New Directions,is the sort of book that beguiles and dazzles in equal measure. Consisting of three disparate stories—of a m...
Photo of Sulaiman Addonia by Alexander Meeus.
For me, one of the most astounding books of this past year—which may have slipped your attention due to the pandemic—was Silence Is My Mother...
Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s debut novel, The Fallen—a withering portrait of a Cuban family with conflicting visions of their country and their roles within it—was published in June 2020...