Translation Tuesdays: Brothers and Ghosts, by Khuê Phạm
Brothers and Ghosts, by Khuê Phạm, is a gut-wrenching exploration about how war can tear families apart. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Brothers and Ghosts, by Khuê Phạm
Brothers and Ghosts, by Khuê Phạm, is a gut-wrenching exploration about how war can tear families apart. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Brothers and Ghosts, by Khuê Phạm
Mary and the Rabbit Dream is a short novel, a psychodrama illustrating a tabloid press run amok, and body horror as farce. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Mary and the Rabbit Dream, by Noémi Kiss-Deáki
Juja by Nino Haratischvili is a darkly beautiful exploration of art, tragedy, mental illness, and personal responsibility. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Juja, by Nino Haratischvili
Form follows destruction. Continue reading How to Detonate the Novel: A Rough Guide to the Later Fiction of Louis Armand
Living Things is a socioeconomic critique of industrial agriculture, but can also be read as Cronenberg-style body horror. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Living Things, by Munir Hachemi
Indian Winter is an exploration of the writing process, the varieties of love, and the appreciation for a place rife with beauty and sensuality. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Indian Winter, by Kazim Ali
“Bekono captures Salomé’s narrative voice. It is a voice at once tender, crass, intellectual, and rebellious, every bit as compelling as Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas.” Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Confrontations by Simone Atangana Bekono @ NYJB
Bird Life, by Anna Smaill, explores the porous boundaries between genius and madness, trauma and genius. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Bird Life, by Anna Smaill
Numbers is a beautifully rendered poetic artifact, a rollicking admixture of visuals and text Continue reading Wednesday Poetry Corner: Numbers, by Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Beware of pity. Continue reading Commonplace Book: Balzac on Pity