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November 2024

THE MOLE IN IOWA CITY
The late Ashokamitran, a legend in contemporary Tamil literature, writes about being an insider—and an outsider—in a writing program in the United…
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A SHOCK FOR THIS TIGER MOM
The story about a piano teacher with an obsessive mother begins hilariously and ends on a morbid note and it made me realize how parents cross the line…
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UNFATHOMABLE AS THE DOLL
A memoir by celebrated Albanian writer Ismail Kadare feels as inaccessible to me as the subject of the memoir is to its author.
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STOPPING BY THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP
An introspectiveJapanese book about a bookstore led me through the life of bookstores that ultimately become local institutions.
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October 2024

NOT SOUL FOOD FOR THIS VEGETARIAN
This week I picked one of the most celebrated books by the first South Korean literature Nobel laureate, Han Kang, and I'm left wondering what I'm…
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MINOR DETAILS, MAJOR RIFTS
The present is forever haunted by the past in Palestine and Israel; Adania Shibli's political novel tells it like it is and makes us think about how…
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THE STORY OF MY TEETH
In this "collectively written" Spanish novel by Valeria Luiselli, we see the world through the sharp eyes of a Mexican auctioneer whose teeth were so…
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INSIDE THE BAOBAB TREE
In this artful journey in the Afrikaans language, Wilma Stockenström, a descendant of the Afrikaner people, writes about a slave girl's life. Here is a…
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September 2024

RESTLESSNESS IN NORWEGIAN
In this gripping novel, Nobel laureate Jon Fosse has plumbed the depths of that feeling we call restlessness to narrate a story of friendship and…
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PATRIARCHY IN THE BUSH
This is a short note from South Africa where we’ve just wrapped up a safari at Sabi Sands Game Reserve next to Kruger National Park.
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IN THE SUITCASE TO SOUTH AFRICA
What might we bring with us on our journey to anywhere if all we were given was a suitcase to fill up? If every object in the suitcase had to tell a…
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