Uncle Sharif's Life in Music / Kazim Ali
Uncle Sharif’s Life in Music by Kazim Ali With several volumes of poetry, books of essays, novels, and works in translation under his...
Anybody / Ari Banias
Anybody by Ari Banias Anybody, Ari Banias’s debut collection, examines our invented understanding of a world we’ve codified with language...
Isadora / Amelia Gray
Isadora by Amelia Gray In “The Storyteller,” Walter Benjamin examines the legacy of the oral storytelling tradition and its print...
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours / Helen Oyeyemi
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, by Helen Oyeyemi Helen Oyeyemi’s latest book, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, is a collection of short...
Do Not Become Alarmed / Maile Meloy
Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy A rare abstract sentence in Maile Meloy’s new novel Do Not Become Alarmed offers a way of...
Contradictions in Design / Matthew Olzmann
Contradictions in the Design by Matthew Olzmann The thirty-seven poems in Matthew Olzmann’s recent collection, Contradictions in the...
The Return / Hisham Matar
The Return by Hisham Matar During the days of popular revolt against Gaddafi’s authoritarian regime, Hisham Matar—the 47-year-old Libyan...
A Gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Elegantly crafted and dazzlingly clever, Amor Towles’s novel A Gentleman in Moscow transcends the...
The Ghost of Birds / Eliot Weinberger
The Ghost of Birds by Eliot Weinberger Half a dozen stories from the Arabian Nights open with an enigmatic, perhaps untranslatable...
Lincoln in the Bardo / George Saunders
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders I didn’t know what a bardo was before reading George Saunders’s new novel Lincoln in the Bardo,...
