Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani Scattered All Over the Earth, the first installment of a trilogy by Japanese…
Sunday Staff Picks: February 27th
Afterfeast by Lisa Hiton “Here are lovers ripening in the purple sky, the space where there is nothing between. Face me. Leap into it. The…
Sunday Staff Picks: December 12th
In Intimacies, Katie Kitamura’s fourth novel, the unnamed narrator moves to the Hague for a one-year gig as an interpreter at the International Criminal Court,…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 14th
You can be sure a collection of science fiction stories will be unique when it begins with “A Brief Reflection on Breasts”—Bo-Young Kim’s provocative forward…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 17th
A Door Behind a Door by Yelena Moskovich Yelena Moskovich’s A Door Behind a Door may be disorienting to a reader who desires a clean…
Sunday Staff Pick: October 10th
The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems by N. Scott Momaday “a book of poems arrived in the afternoon a bound excitement” (haiku…
Sunday Staff Pick: April 25th
The Earliest Witnesses by G. C. Waldrep Can we touch the gods? What does the body feel when language fabricates transparency? How do we perceive…
Sunday Staff Picks: March 28th
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri Whereabouts sees the incomparable Jhumpa Lahiri turn her talents to the interior world. The episodic novel follows the wanderings of an…
Sunday Staff Picks: March 7th
There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumara, translated by Polly Barton Kikuko Tsumara’s protagonist is burnt out beyond description from work.…
Sunday Staff Picks: February 21st
The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen “Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.” So begins the second chapter of Childhood, the…