Mapping the Sites of Trauma: On Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s “Savage Tongues”
The heroine of Oloomi’s latest novel is driven by an urge to rewrite a painful personal history....
Memory Speaks: On Sasha Filipenko’s “Red Crosses”
Magdalena Miecznicka is captivated by “Red Crosses”, Sasha Filipenko’s first novel to be translated into English....
“Being Single Is Not a Vocation”: On Simone de Beauvoir’s “Inseparable”
A novel about female friendship that Beauvoir wrote in 1954 is now available in the US in English....
An Innocent Abroad: Joan Didion’s Midlife Crisis
Because of her failure to see beyond the world that raised her, Didion almost wasted two decades of literary production....
Aristocratic Nostalgia: On Mateiu Caragiale’s “Rakes of the Old Court”
A masterpiece of Romanian modernism finally available in a superb English translation....
“A Stranger Steps into the House”: On Ashley Nelson Levy’s “Immediate Family”
Ryan Smernoff explores the boundaries of familial love in “Immediate Family,” a debut novel by Ashley Nelson Levy....
Idiom as Instrument: On Yan Lianke’s “Hard Like Water”
Thomas Chen reviews Yan Lianke’s “Hard Like Water,” translated by Carlos Rojas....
“Of Course, of Course”: On Anthony Veasna So’s “Afterparties”
Summer Kim Lee reviews Anthony Veasna So’s “Afterparties.”...
The Last of the Fucked-Up Mohicans: On Gianfranco Calligarich’s “Last Summer in the City”
A minor masterpiece of Italian fiction available now available in English translation....
The Human Body as Fever Dream: On Yelena Moskovich’s “A Door Behind a Door”
A surreal and visceral novel about Russian immigrants in 1990s Milwaukee....
The Monumental Unsaid: A Conversation with Rachel Yoder
The author discusses her first novel, “Nightbitch,” and the loneliness of motherhood....
Interconnected Lives: On Greg Sarris’s “Watermelon Nights”
A new reprint of a classic work of contemporary Native American fiction....
