A Beast in Paradise – Cécile Coulon
A Beast in Paradise is far less a rural book, let alone a small-town book, than a farm book.
Daybook from Sheep Meadow – Peter Dimock
It really is hard to imagine a novel more devoted to a polemical, political purpose than DAYBOOK FROM SHEEP MEADOW.
Love in the Korean Demilitarized Zone
The appeal to love as a revelatory force is at once a familiar rhetorical strategy for galvanizing peninsular unification platforms and a basic generative paradigm for imagining other worlds emotionally.
Subjects We Left Out – Naomi Washer
I found myself particularly interested in the way that Washer uses the act of translation as a means of not just moving from one language to another but as a way to understand or translate another person.
I love stories where people go to hell, and obviously this novel is my contribution to that literature.
The Hawthorn Archive – Avery F. Gordon
THE HAWTHORN ARCHIVE explores the utopian margins and revolutionary thinking that reside outside of the racialized historiography and narrow discourse of the Western conception of utopia.
Since newsrooms around the country are churning out think pieces about populism in an accelerating news cycle, we need the work of scholars like Moffitt to help establish a baseline for how to understand these phenomena.
Veba Geceleri (Nights of Plague) – Orhan Pamuk
Every five years or so Mr. Orhan Pamuk, our Nobel laureate, publishes a new novel and we, the devout Turkish readers, bear arms.
In LATE SUMMER Ruffato uses the final days of an ordinary Brazilian man returned to the city of Cataguases to subtly confront the societal changes and inequalities in Brazil.
Forster himself believed there was more to tell.