by Vika Mujumdar

Speak/Stop – Noémi Lefebvre

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Literature, as Lefebvre reads it, cannot be reduced to language, or genre, or nation—fluidity is more productive, more generous, more expansive.

The Use of Photography – Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie

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Writing and photography together . . . become a way . . . to gesture at absence, to make clearer the shape of what is missing in order to more fully read the photograph.

The Wilderness – Ayşegül Savaş

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Savaş’s prose . . . in its sharpness and clarity, never loses sight of the new mother as shaped by the world, by culture, by history, and most of all, by familial networks of care.

The Translator’s Daughter – Grace Loh Prasad

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Framed through the lens of Prasad’s shifting relationship with her parents across geographies, THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER is a startling, aching account of [her] relationship to home.

then telling be the antidote – Xiao Yue Shan

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Xiao Yue Shan looks at once backwards and forwards, superimposing past, present, and future to imagine the speculative possibilities of the future, and the fragile malleability of the past.