Pico Iyer, foreword. London / Chicago. Peter Owen (IPG, distr.). 2012. ISBN 9780720614886
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New York. Knopf. 2013. ISBN 9780307960580 Anne Carson’s Red Doc> is a brilliantly conceived hybrid both in form and content. Boldly mischievous in tone and risk-taking in spirit, it is lik…
New York. Henry Holt. 2013. ISBN 9780805098570 His success as a novelist notwithstanding, autobiographical writing has been at the forefront of Paul Auster’s work from the time of his debut, The I…La lámpara maravillosa: Cuatro ensayos sobre la educación y un elogio a la lectura by William Ospina
Bogotá. Random House / Mondadori. 2012. ISBN 9789588640174 In an admirable page of La lámpara maravillosa: Cuatro ensayos sobre la educación y un elogio a la lectura (The marvelous lamp: Fou…- Phillip Lopate. To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction. New York. Simon & Schuster / Free Press. 2013. ISBN 9781451696325 Portrait Inside…
- Philadelphia. Temple University Press. 2012. ISBN 9781439907597 June 4, 1989, remains a day of infamy for the Chinese government. The Chinese army opened fire that day on Chinese citizens (workers, re…
- New York. Knopf. 2013. ISBN 9780307270245 In his last work, Lebensanschauung (1918), the German sociologist Georg Simmel articulated a concept of the modern individual as a boundary between b…
- Geoff Wisner, ed. Boulder, Colorado. Lynne Rienner. 2013. ISBN 9781588268624 In African Lives, Geoff Wisner’s selection of memoirs (inclusive of an interview, a speech, and court testimony) a…
- Warsaw. Zeszyty Literackie. 2012. ISBN 9788360046364 In 1982 a courageous young woman, Barbara Toruńczyk, launched a new Polish literary magazine in Paris. Against all odds this magazine, Zeszyty…
- Jeffrey Angles, tr. Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press. 2012. ISBN 9780816679362 Mutsuo Takahashi is one of the most prominent contemporary Japanese poets to have thematized homoeroticism. Thi…
- Tim Parks, tr. Brooklyn, New York. Archipelago. 2013. ISBN 9781935744740 The Woman of Porto Pim is an odd sort of treasure: a collage of literary fragments that together craft a portrait of b…
- San Antonio, Texas. Trinity University Press. 2012. ISBN 9781595341365 Kim Stafford’s moving memoir of loss and guilt about the suicide of his beloved brother, Bret, at age forty is brilliantly conce…
- New York. W.W. Norton. 2012. ISBN 9780393088908 Aman Sethi’s A Free Man joins such excellent recent nonfiction accounts of India as William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives, Katherine Boo’s…
- New York. Pegasus. 2013. ISBN 9781605984117 The thesis of Andrea Pitzer’s book on Vladimir Nabokov is an ambitious one, and its ambition is reflected in her title: The Secret Life of Vladimir Nabo…
- Paris. Gallimard. 2013. ISBN 9782070139293 “A book whose center lies on the periphery, and which provides nothing to hold onto, would that be sheer nonsense?” asks Marcel Cohen in the first pages of h…
- Beau Beausoleil & Deema K. Shehabi, ed. Oakland, California. PM Press. 2012. ISBN 9781604865905 Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad is a winding street about one thousand feet long, noted for its many…
- Sophie Ratcliffe, ed. New York. W. W. Norton. 2013. ISBN 9780393088991 From P. G. Wodehouse’s first letter published in 1899 at age seventeen to the last, written (days before his death) in February 1…
- George Szirtes, tr. London. Telegram. 2012. 268 pages. ISBN 9781846590948 Yudit Kiss (born Judith Holló) is a Hungarian-born economist based in Geneva. She grew up in Budapest during the decades know…
- New York. Drawn & Quarterly / Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2013. ISBN 9781770461031 Seven years ago, Miriam Katin made an impressive debut with the publication of her first graphic novel, We A…
- Jonathan Dunne, ed. Vigo, Spain. Xerais de Galicia. 2012. ISBN 9788499144306 This is the third in a series of bilingual volumes produced by Jonathan Dunne, though we learn this only in his preface, e…
- Lacy Kornitzer, tr. Berlin. Matthes und Seitz. 2012. ISBN 9783882215991 This slender volume of personal essays is the latest multilingual contribution of the accomplished fiction writer László Végel t…
- Madrid. Editorial Verbum. 2012. ISBN 9788479627119 Kokoro, una mexicana en Japón is a memoir that relates various trips to Japan that Araceli Tinajero made during the 1980s. Tinajero expresse…
- Laura Watkinson, tr. Simone Sassen, photographer. London. MacLehose Press. 2012. ISBN 9780857050267 Because of his long experience with the city and his outsider perspective on Germany, Dutch writer C…
- Journeys on the Silk Road: A Desert Explorer, Buddha’s Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World’s Oldest Printed Book. Guilford, Conn. Globe Pequot / Lyons Press. 2012. ISBN 9780762782…
- David Homel, tr. Vancouver, B.C. Arsenal Pulp Press. 2013. ISBN 9781551524986 Like many Haitian writers and artists, the novelist Dany Laferrière has been living abroad for many years—in his case, sin…