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Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Press. 2016. 370 pages. One hundred and two Palestinians in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States have contributed essays of about one thousand words each t... -
New York. Columbia University Press. 2015. 322 pages. Constantly aware of her semantically loaded and ambitious title, Rebecca L. Walkowitz rightly focuses her epilogue on the mutability of “translate... -
Brooklyn. Restless Books. 2016. 256 pages. Juan Villoro knows that soccer fans often enjoy rewatching and recounting a spectacular goal more than seeing it for the first time. Reading God Is Roun... -
Budapest. Corvina. 2015. 278 pages. Merész magyarok (Bold Hungarians) is Krisztián Nyáry’s second collection of sketches and short essays within two years. It follows the very succesful ... -
New York. Simon & Schuster. 2015. 339 pages. Christopher Hitchens died in December 2011 from cancer, long before publication of four dozen of his previously uncollected essays, all commissioned by... -
New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2015. 493 pages. In his essay on Philip Massinger, T. S. Eliot wrote that good poets steal but convert their thefts into something new or at least different. Rob... -
San Antonio, Texas. Wings Press. 2015. 290 pages. Outside the Margins: Literary Commentaries offers an in-depth look at the literature of international authors whose writings are “transformat... -
Madrid/Frankfurt. Iberoamericana/Vervuert. 2015. 374 pages. Balancing native triumphalism and kowtowing to foreign views, this extensive collection evinces a pressing need: conveying Latin American li... -
St. Petersburg, Florida. Three Pines Press. 2015. 155 pages. In the preface to this beautifully illustrated study of the significance of flowers in Chinese culture, An Lan Zhang first pays tribute to... -
Paris. Minuit. 2015. 122 pages. Jean-Philippe Toussaint introduces his new book on a very saturnine note, suggesting that it will please nobody, neither intellectuals, who are indifferent to soccer, n... -
Syracuse University Press. 2015. 190 pages. This book is not about the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008) but is, in many ways, a tribute to him and his poetry, which engaged Arabs eve... -
New York. Bellevue Literary Press. 2015. 205 pages. In her new book, A Solemn Pleasure, Melissa Pritchard notes that “The ancient Latin root for pilgrim is per agrum, one who walks b... -
New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2015. 377 pages. In the opening pages of this ambitious memoir—in which its author tracks the career of his own curiosity through a lifetime of dedicated... -
Lagrasse, France. Verdier. 2015. 125 pages. A professor of literary studies at the University of Geneva, Laurent Jenny is best known as a critic and theorist, with an impressive body of scholarly work... -
Mexico City. Aguilar. 2014. 651 pages. This magisterial biography—already published in an abridged French version with an English one forthcoming—is the painstaking work of an eminent critic of Mexica... -
Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 2015. 279 pages. Highly acclaimed, best-selling author Peter Balakian is the preeminent Armenian writer in English today, whether the genre is poetry (Ziggura... -
Barcelona. Alfaguara. 2015. ISBN 9788420419169 Mario Vargas Llosa’s latest play, Los cuentos de la peste, was first performed at Madrid’s Teatro Español in early 2015. Directed by Joan Ollé,... -
New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2015. ISBN 9780865478275 Iain Sinclair sets out on his quest for the ghosts and spirits of members of the Beat Generation because “I needed a new mythology to sh... -
Mari Yoshihara & Juliet Winters Carpenter, tr. New York. Columbia University Press. 2015. ISBN 9780231163026. Minae Mizumura is no stranger to accolades, having won major awards for many of her bo... -
New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2014. ISBN 9780374259969 For translator, poet, and literary critic Michael Hofmann, linguistic encounters remain entrenched in the state of being bilingual: “The... -
Buenos Aires. Capital Intelectual. 2014. ISBN 9789876144612 Masks, among other things, may be monstrous or cute ambassadors of distant secrets, peoples, and truths. By cataloging her masks, passionat... -
Cambridge, Mass. / London. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780674724730 With neither footnotes nor endnotes nor a lengthy bibliography, Michael Schmidt’s 1,172-page study of the... -
Marilyn Hacker, tr. Evanston, Illinois. Northwestern University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780810130081 Born in Lebanon, Vénus Khoury-Ghata has lived in France since 1972. She has published forty books of nov... -
New York. Riverhead Books / Penguin. 2015. ISBN 9781594633652 Mohsin Hamid, novelist and essayist, has lived in Pakistan, England, and the United States, cultivating a tension over identity that perv... -
New York / London. Henry Holt / Profile Books. 2014. ISBN 9780805095159 / 9781846685811 “Old age is not a battle. Old age is a massacre.” Atul Gawande quotes Philip Roth to emphasize the seriousness...
