New York. Atlantic Monthly Press. 2012. ISBN 9780802119711
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- Stanford, California. Stanford University Press. 2012. ISBN 9780804762939 Alan Mintz’s Sanctuary in the Wilderness represents a grand undertaking of the emergence and development of Hebrew po…
- George Gömöri & Mari Gömöri, ed. London. Alba. 2012. ISBN 9780952760511 The contents of this handsome and moving book are summed up on the back cover: Jewish and non-Jewish Hungarian poets expres…
- New York. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 2012. ISBN 9780399158438 When a leading science-fiction author publishes an anthology of essays entitled Distrust That Particular Flavor, one is relieved to fin…
- New York. Twelve / Grand Central. 2012. ISBN 9780446563130 Deftly written and refreshingly nonacademic, Eminent Outlaws spans fifty years of gay fiction, drama, and poetry from Gore Vidal, Tr…
- Brian Roettinger, designer. Zurich. JRP Ringier (Artbook / D.A.P., distr.). 2011. ISBN 9783037641194 Collage Culture is itself something of a collage—a team effort by multidisciplinary writer…
- Lisa M. Dillman, tr. Champaign, Illinois. Dalkey Archive. 2012. ISBN 978-1564786067 Widely recognized as one of the finest Latin American essayists and as a trenchant critic of world literatures, Chr…
- Anne McLean & Rosalind Harvey, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2012. ISBN 9780374223977 First published in 2006 as El Olvido que seremos and reminiscent of Eduardo Galeano’s…
- New York. Pantheon. 2011. ISBN 9780375423949 You might say, and many have, that in 1986 Art Spiegelman’s Maus revolutionized the late-twentieth-century cultural perception of comics and the e…
- Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2011. ISBN 9780815632788 Through passionate personal accounts, close readings of Iranian literature, and astute observations of the culture, Farzaneh Mil…
- Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press. 2011 (©2010). ISBN 9780472050994 Kevin Stein grew up, like most contemporary poets, believing what he was told, that poetry was a dying form, a noble if outda…
- New York. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2012. ISBN 9780547134666 Some might consider building a home in a country as politically volatile and prone to violence as Lebanon an exercise in futility, especi…
- Paris. P.O.L. 2011. ISBN 9782818014059 The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot is one of the five major literary prizes in France, second only to the Prix Goncourt in terms of the prestige it confers. Created…
- Seattle. Sasquatch. 2010. vi + 151 pages. $12.95. isbn 978-1-57061- 670-9 We have all experienced it before: while attempting to read, our phone pings, alerting us to the arrival of a new text, email…
- New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2011. lxii + 421 pages + 8 plates. $35. isbn 978-0-374-28138-0 While admired during her lifetime, Elizabeth Bishop is now considered to be one of the most impor…
- Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2011. viii + 154 pages. $19.95. isbn 978-0-8156-3253-5 Despite its modest subtitle, this book is a good introduction to a little-known but growing tradi…
- New York. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2011. ISBN 9780547336916 The Tao of Travel is a delightful collection of un-commonplace remarks and episodes by writers who have traveled, edited by a ma…
- New York. Twelve / Hachette. 2011. ISBN 9781455502776 Ordinary book reviewers have three tasks: to determine what the author set out to do; how well that task was accomplished; and whether it was wor…
- Middletown, Connecticut. Wesleyan University Press. 2011. ISBN 9780819570826 In 2003 Wesleyan published one of the most exciting anthologies of Latin American fiction in years. Edited by Andrea L. Be…
- Budapest. Múlt és jövő. 2010. 263 pages. 3200 Ft. ISBN 978-963-9512-60-3 Ágnes Heller is the doyen of Hungarian philosophers. She is well over eighty but possesses almost inex-haustible energy. In…