The Lost Worlds of Anton Shammas’s “Arabesques” The Lost Worlds of Anton Shammas’s “Arabesques”
A new translation of the 1988 novel documents not only the loss and exile created by the Nakba but also the loss and exile created by occupation.
May 30, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Raja Shehadeh
The Reluctant Feminists of the 1960s The Reluctant Feminists of the 1960s
Wendell Stevenson’s campus novel Margot examines the life of a woman who initially resists the political and sexual education her era offers.
May 25, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Lily Meyer
Liberating a Palestinian Novel From Israeli Prison Liberating a Palestinian Novel From Israeli Prison
The Trinity of Fundamentals, a book Wisam Rafeedie penned while imprisoned, is a stirring account of dissidence and resistance to the Occupation.
May 24, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Danya Al-Saleh and Samar Al-Saleh
What “Demon Copperhead” Gets Right About Appalachia What “Demon Copperhead” Gets Right About Appalachia
Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel shows the reality of the opioid and foster care crises in the region without resorting to stale stereotypes.
May 15, 2023 / StudentNation / Jessica Miller
Santiago Amigorena’s Novel of the Shoah and Latin America Santiago Amigorena’s Novel of the Shoah and Latin America
In The Ghetto Within, the Argentine novelist considers the dark shadow that the Holocaust has cast not only on Europe but also on Latin America.
May 8, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans
The Disappearing Acts of Haruki Murakami The Disappearing Acts of Haruki Murakami
In his new book, the novelist examines what it takes to become a great writer.
May 1, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Rumaan Alam
Hazel Jane Plante’s Novel of Art, Sex, and Rock and Roll Hazel Jane Plante’s Novel of Art, Sex, and Rock and Roll
Any Other City, a fictionalized memoir of a trans musician, interrogates the conventional narrative possibilities offered to trans writers.
Apr 27, 2023 / Books & the Arts / McKenzie Wark
Emma Cline’s Novel of Pool Parties and Class Conflict Emma Cline’s Novel of Pool Parties and Class Conflict
Full of suspense and subterfuge, The Guest turns a story about a summer on Long Island into a thriller about what it takes to survive.
Apr 17, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson
The Palo Alto System The Palo Alto System
Malcolm Harris’s new history of his hometown dispenses with the sentimental lore and examines how it has long been the seedbed for exploitation, chaos, and ecological degradation.
Apr 17, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Lethem
The Mind-Bending Fiction of Mircea Cărtărescu The Mind-Bending Fiction of Mircea Cărtărescu
In his postmodern epic Solenoid, the Romanian novelist offers us an extraordinary and baroque elaboration of a subjectivity less than ordinary.
Apr 3, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Will Self