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…
Sunday Staff Picks: January 31st
Three Brothers by Yan Lianke Yan Lianke’s work Three Brothers, translated by Carlos Rojas, is a tour-de-force of language and reflection. Ostensibly a memoir, Three…
Sunday Staff Picks: January 24th
Memorial by Bryan Washington Bryan Washington exploded onto the literary scene in 2019. His debut short story collection Lot garnered both critical and popular attention,…