“Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa recounts a disastrous event in the past, but it is also highly relevant in this era of disinformation, extremism, and violence.” Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa @ nyjb
“Accessible, challenging, and fun by turns, Speculative Los Angeles possesses everything a fan could want.” Continue reading Speculative Los Angeles, by Denise Hamilton @ nyjb
“Feed is a brilliant contemplation of love seen through the lenses of food, pop culture, and raw emotion.” Continue reading Feed, by Tommy Pico @ NYJB
“Tommy Pico brings his unique personal perspective to this volume. He explores, once again, what it is to be Native American and gay in the United States at that weird moment in history prior to the pandemic.” Continue reading Wednesday Poetry Corner: Junk by Tommy Pico @ NYJB
Set in the criminal shadow world behind luxury hotels, Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi follows four friends in their attempt to transcend the poverty and violence of their surroundings. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Eve Out of Her Ruins, by Ananda Devi @NYJB
A fragmentary meditation on death and decay, “Of Darkness” by Josefine Klougart stretches the concept of fictional narrative to its very limits. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Of Darkness, by Josefine Klougart @ NYJB
“New York 2140 is a book brimming with positivity, humor, and intelligence.” Continue reading Sci Fi Saturdays: New York 2140, by Kim Stanley Robinson @ NYJB
“Grazda’s images show a New York City before it erased entire neighborhoods for expensive shiny blandness.” Continue reading NYC in Photos Week: On the Bowery by Ed Grazda
Lower East and Upper West chronicle New York City from the late fifties to the late sixties. Tumultuous change, “urban renewal,” and racial strife mark these violent decades, but in these photographs these charged descriptors lay in the background. Continue reading NYC in Photos Week: Lower East and Upper West: New York City Photographs 1957-1968 by Jonathan Brand @ NYJB
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