“In the novella the investigation takes the form of a symbolic act.”
In @clereviewbooks.bsky.social, Jonathan Larson reviews Leslie Kaplan’s newly translated novella, “Miss Nobody Knows” - clereviewofbooks.com/leslie-kapla...
In @clereviewbooks.bsky.social, Jonathan Larson reviews Leslie Kaplan’s newly translated novella, “Miss Nobody Knows” - clereviewofbooks.com/leslie-kapla...
Selling Tainted Blood: On Leslie Kaplan’s “Miss Nobody Knows” - Cleveland Review of Books
Once a body has been introduced, the enquete must follow.
clereviewofbooks.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“In the novella the investigation takes the form of a symbolic act.”
In @clereviewbooks.bsky.social, Jonathan Larson reviews Leslie Kaplan’s newly translated novella, “Miss Nobody Knows” - clereviewofbooks.com/leslie-kapla...
In @clereviewbooks.bsky.social, Jonathan Larson reviews Leslie Kaplan’s newly translated novella, “Miss Nobody Knows” - clereviewofbooks.com/leslie-kapla...
“Dos Passos’ emphasis on the aural is often overlooked, but it combines with his montage technique to cement his great symphony of concrete and misery.”
In The Metropolitan Review, Duncan Stuart revisits John Dos Passos’ “Manhattan Transfer” - metropolitanreview.com/the-miraculo...
In The Metropolitan Review, Duncan Stuart revisits John Dos Passos’ “Manhattan Transfer” - metropolitanreview.com/the-miraculo...
The Miraculous and Miserable City: Jon Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer at 100 - The Metropolitan Review
At the turn of the 20th century, the city became a source of concern, something to study, something to ponder. On the back of the Industrial Revolution and the concurrent disappearance of older, more ...
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December 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“Dos Passos’ emphasis on the aural is often overlooked, but it combines with his montage technique to cement his great symphony of concrete and misery.”
In The Metropolitan Review, Duncan Stuart revisits John Dos Passos’ “Manhattan Transfer” - metropolitanreview.com/the-miraculo...
In The Metropolitan Review, Duncan Stuart revisits John Dos Passos’ “Manhattan Transfer” - metropolitanreview.com/the-miraculo...
“This constant rush of remembrance is both blessing and curse, a balm of familiarity that stings as it soothes.”
In @wirobooks.bsky.social, Frances Thomas reviews Perrine Tripier’s newly translated novel, “Our Precious Wars” - www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/o...
In @wirobooks.bsky.social, Frances Thomas reviews Perrine Tripier’s newly translated novel, “Our Precious Wars” - www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/o...
Our Precious Wars: A Novel | Washington Independent Review of Books
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December 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“This constant rush of remembrance is both blessing and curse, a balm of familiarity that stings as it soothes.”
In @wirobooks.bsky.social, Frances Thomas reviews Perrine Tripier’s newly translated novel, “Our Precious Wars” - www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/o...
In @wirobooks.bsky.social, Frances Thomas reviews Perrine Tripier’s newly translated novel, “Our Precious Wars” - www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/o...
“Across the collection, these stories are unforgiving and gut-wrenching, a reminder that reality is often the same.”
In Asymptote Journal, Rebecca Suzuki reviews Esther Karin Mngodo’s newly translated short story collection, “The Witness of Nina Mvungi” - www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/12...
In Asymptote Journal, Rebecca Suzuki reviews Esther Karin Mngodo’s newly translated short story collection, “The Witness of Nina Mvungi” - www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/12...
More Than a Witness: A Review of The Witness of Nina Mvungi and Other Stories by Esther Karin Mngodo and Jay Boss Rubin - Asymptote Blog
Across the collection, these stories are unforgiving and gut-wrenching, a reminder that reality is often the same.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“Across the collection, these stories are unforgiving and gut-wrenching, a reminder that reality is often the same.”
In Asymptote Journal, Rebecca Suzuki reviews Esther Karin Mngodo’s newly translated short story collection, “The Witness of Nina Mvungi” - www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/12...
In Asymptote Journal, Rebecca Suzuki reviews Esther Karin Mngodo’s newly translated short story collection, “The Witness of Nina Mvungi” - www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/12...
“Reading ‘The Ways of Paradise’ is like unfolding an interpretation of a dream—or nightmare—we did not ourselves have or no longer remember.”
In The Brooklyn Rail, Joseph Albernaz reviews Peter Cornell’s newly translated novel, “The Ways of Paradise” - brooklynrail.org/2025/12/book...
In The Brooklyn Rail, Joseph Albernaz reviews Peter Cornell’s newly translated novel, “The Ways of Paradise” - brooklynrail.org/2025/12/book...
Peter Cornell’s The Ways of Paradise | The Brooklyn Rail
Peter Cornell’s novel-in-notes The Ways of Paradise is itself an enigma, even as it pursues a whole complex of enigmatic and esoteric phenomena spanning millennia, languages, cultures, and discourses,...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“Reading ‘The Ways of Paradise’ is like unfolding an interpretation of a dream—or nightmare—we did not ourselves have or no longer remember.”
In The Brooklyn Rail, Joseph Albernaz reviews Peter Cornell’s newly translated novel, “The Ways of Paradise” - brooklynrail.org/2025/12/book...
In The Brooklyn Rail, Joseph Albernaz reviews Peter Cornell’s newly translated novel, “The Ways of Paradise” - brooklynrail.org/2025/12/book...
“Most of all, it is a world of interconnection between human and more-than-human experiences.”
In Reading in Translation, Claudia Dellacasa reviews Kamakura Sayumi’s newly translated poetry collection, “Applause for a Cloud” - readingintranslation.com/2025/12/08/k...
In Reading in Translation, Claudia Dellacasa reviews Kamakura Sayumi’s newly translated poetry collection, “Applause for a Cloud” - readingintranslation.com/2025/12/08/k...
Claudia Dellacasa on Haiku, Kamakura Sayumi, and Translation
Claudia Dellacasa reviews James Shea's crystalline translation of Kamakura Sayumi's haiku.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
“Most of all, it is a world of interconnection between human and more-than-human experiences.”
In Reading in Translation, Claudia Dellacasa reviews Kamakura Sayumi’s newly translated poetry collection, “Applause for a Cloud” - readingintranslation.com/2025/12/08/k...
In Reading in Translation, Claudia Dellacasa reviews Kamakura Sayumi’s newly translated poetry collection, “Applause for a Cloud” - readingintranslation.com/2025/12/08/k...
“She can’t see the depth of Samy’s fear, of the threat to him, of the government, of the violence hidden within the people around her.”
In @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social, Leah Rachel von Essen reviews Osvalde Lewat’s newly translated novel, “The Aquatics” - chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/05/f...
In @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social, Leah Rachel von Essen reviews Osvalde Lewat’s newly translated novel, “The Aquatics” - chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/05/f...
Falsity and Facade in “The Aquatics” - Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Osvalde Lewat's debut novel, "The Aquatics"
chireviewofbooks.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“She can’t see the depth of Samy’s fear, of the threat to him, of the government, of the violence hidden within the people around her.”
In @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social, Leah Rachel von Essen reviews Osvalde Lewat’s newly translated novel, “The Aquatics” - chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/05/f...
In @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social, Leah Rachel von Essen reviews Osvalde Lewat’s newly translated novel, “The Aquatics” - chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/05/f...
“‘Mockingbird’ fans will recognize many of the faces and places in these pages, albeit in their nascent, underdeveloped forms.”
In @therumpus.net, Acree Graham Macam reviews Harper Lee’s posthumous story and essay collection, “The Land of Sweet Forever” - therumpus.net/2025/12/05/s...
In @therumpus.net, Acree Graham Macam reviews Harper Lee’s posthumous story and essay collection, “The Land of Sweet Forever” - therumpus.net/2025/12/05/s...
Scout Finch Will Outlive Us All: Harper Lee’s "The Land of Sweet Forever" - The Rumpus
… there’s no new work here, only archives with a pretty cover
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December 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“‘Mockingbird’ fans will recognize many of the faces and places in these pages, albeit in their nascent, underdeveloped forms.”
In @therumpus.net, Acree Graham Macam reviews Harper Lee’s posthumous story and essay collection, “The Land of Sweet Forever” - therumpus.net/2025/12/05/s...
In @therumpus.net, Acree Graham Macam reviews Harper Lee’s posthumous story and essay collection, “The Land of Sweet Forever” - therumpus.net/2025/12/05/s...
“He wants to make something of himself out of these obscure origins, even if what he creates is a fake; he is like a non-homicidal Tom Ripley.”
In @fullstopmag.bsky.social, Noah Slaughter reviews Juan José Saer’s newly reissued novel, “The Event” - www.full-stop.net/2025/12/01/r...
In @fullstopmag.bsky.social, Noah Slaughter reviews Juan José Saer’s newly reissued novel, “The Event” - www.full-stop.net/2025/12/01/r...
The Event – Juan José Saer
In Bianco, intellectual conviction slips into conspiracy.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“He wants to make something of himself out of these obscure origins, even if what he creates is a fake; he is like a non-homicidal Tom Ripley.”
In @fullstopmag.bsky.social, Noah Slaughter reviews Juan José Saer’s newly reissued novel, “The Event” - www.full-stop.net/2025/12/01/r...
In @fullstopmag.bsky.social, Noah Slaughter reviews Juan José Saer’s newly reissued novel, “The Event” - www.full-stop.net/2025/12/01/r...
“Each new piece of the puzzle reveals an increasingly chilling side of Yuna and the extremes to which she will go in her quest for a perfect life.”
In @necessaryfiction.com, Ashley Cowger reviews You-Jeong Jeong’s newly translated novel, “Perfect Happiness” - necessaryfiction.com/reviews/perf...
In @necessaryfiction.com, Ashley Cowger reviews You-Jeong Jeong’s newly translated novel, “Perfect Happiness” - necessaryfiction.com/reviews/perf...
Perfect Happiness – Necessary Fiction
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December 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“Each new piece of the puzzle reveals an increasingly chilling side of Yuna and the extremes to which she will go in her quest for a perfect life.”
In @necessaryfiction.com, Ashley Cowger reviews You-Jeong Jeong’s newly translated novel, “Perfect Happiness” - necessaryfiction.com/reviews/perf...
In @necessaryfiction.com, Ashley Cowger reviews You-Jeong Jeong’s newly translated novel, “Perfect Happiness” - necessaryfiction.com/reviews/perf...
“Though one may have escaped Maia’s prison for now, one’s heart still mourns behind its walls.”
In @southwestreview.bsky.social, Adrian Van Young reviews Ana Paula Maia’s newly translated novel, “On Earth as It Is Beneath” - southwestreview.com/at-the-edge-...
In @southwestreview.bsky.social, Adrian Van Young reviews Ana Paula Maia’s newly translated novel, “On Earth as It Is Beneath” - southwestreview.com/at-the-edge-...
At the Edge of the Known | Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath
By Adrian Van Young
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December 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
“Though one may have escaped Maia’s prison for now, one’s heart still mourns behind its walls.”
In @southwestreview.bsky.social, Adrian Van Young reviews Ana Paula Maia’s newly translated novel, “On Earth as It Is Beneath” - southwestreview.com/at-the-edge-...
In @southwestreview.bsky.social, Adrian Van Young reviews Ana Paula Maia’s newly translated novel, “On Earth as It Is Beneath” - southwestreview.com/at-the-edge-...
“Vitangelo is afraid and suspicious of the outside world, someone who sees his mind as essentially severed from it.”
In @thenation.com, Gus O’Connor reviews Luigi Pirandello’s newly translated novel, “One, None, and a Hundred Grand” - www.thenation.com/article/cult...
In @thenation.com, Gus O’Connor reviews Luigi Pirandello’s newly translated novel, “One, None, and a Hundred Grand” - www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Luigi Pirandello’s Broken Men
The Nobel Prize-winning writer was once seen as Italy’s great man of letters. Why was he forgotten?
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December 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“Vitangelo is afraid and suspicious of the outside world, someone who sees his mind as essentially severed from it.”
In @thenation.com, Gus O’Connor reviews Luigi Pirandello’s newly translated novel, “One, None, and a Hundred Grand” - www.thenation.com/article/cult...
In @thenation.com, Gus O’Connor reviews Luigi Pirandello’s newly translated novel, “One, None, and a Hundred Grand” - www.thenation.com/article/cult...
“Cărtărescu, though, commands his own idiom of uncanny ecstasy, almost as if David Lynch had dramatised the prophetic books of William Blake.”
In @financialtimes.com, Boyd Tonkin reviews Mircea Cărtărescu’s newly translated novel, “Blinding: The Left Wing” - www.ft.com/content/eff7...
In @financialtimes.com, Boyd Tonkin reviews Mircea Cărtărescu’s newly translated novel, “Blinding: The Left Wing” - www.ft.com/content/eff7...
A dream-like voyage through communist Romania — Blinding: The Left Wing
Mircea Cărtărescu’s disorientating tangle of memory and fantasy is set in the grim Bucharest of the mid 20th century
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December 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“Cărtărescu, though, commands his own idiom of uncanny ecstasy, almost as if David Lynch had dramatised the prophetic books of William Blake.”
In @financialtimes.com, Boyd Tonkin reviews Mircea Cărtărescu’s newly translated novel, “Blinding: The Left Wing” - www.ft.com/content/eff7...
In @financialtimes.com, Boyd Tonkin reviews Mircea Cărtărescu’s newly translated novel, “Blinding: The Left Wing” - www.ft.com/content/eff7...
“If there is a glimmer of hope in the novel’s bleak conclusion, it is that, as Havel observed, individuals are the system.”
In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, Cory Oldweiler reviews Krisztina Tóth’s newly translated novel, “Eye of the Monkey” - lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-po...
In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, Cory Oldweiler reviews Krisztina Tóth’s newly translated novel, “Eye of the Monkey” - lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-po...
A Power Built on Lies | Los Angeles Review of Books
Cory Oldweiler reviews Hungarian author Krisztina Tóth’s novel “Eye of the Monkey,” newly translated by Ottilie Mulzet.
lareviewofbooks.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“If there is a glimmer of hope in the novel’s bleak conclusion, it is that, as Havel observed, individuals are the system.”
In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, Cory Oldweiler reviews Krisztina Tóth’s newly translated novel, “Eye of the Monkey” - lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-po...
In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, Cory Oldweiler reviews Krisztina Tóth’s newly translated novel, “Eye of the Monkey” - lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-po...
“As ‘Women, Seated’ moves into its final act, arrivals and incursions in the house bring both the cold sting of reality and fresh delusions.”
In @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social, Angus Stewart reviews Zhang Yueran’s newly translated novel, “Women, Seated” - asianreviewofbooks.com/women-seated...
In @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social, Angus Stewart reviews Zhang Yueran’s newly translated novel, “Women, Seated” - asianreviewofbooks.com/women-seated...
“Women, Seated” by Zhang Yueran
In her 1944 essay “Writing of One’s Own”, Eileen Chang wrote “I do not like heroics. I like tragedy and, even better, desolation”. Twenty-one years earlier, in his speech “What happens after Nora l…
asianreviewofbooks.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
“As ‘Women, Seated’ moves into its final act, arrivals and incursions in the house bring both the cold sting of reality and fresh delusions.”
In @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social, Angus Stewart reviews Zhang Yueran’s newly translated novel, “Women, Seated” - asianreviewofbooks.com/women-seated...
In @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social, Angus Stewart reviews Zhang Yueran’s newly translated novel, “Women, Seated” - asianreviewofbooks.com/women-seated...
British playwright Tom Stoppard has died aged 88 - www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
Sir Tom won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love.
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
British playwright Tom Stoppard has died aged 88 - www.bbc.com/news/article...
“Turpeinen’s writing has an eerie way of showing us, rather than telling, how tightly an iron chain links human advancement to earthly destruction.”
In @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social, Hannah Korbel reviews Iida Turpeinen’s translated novel, “Beasts of the Sea” - chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/26/b...
In @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social, Hannah Korbel reviews Iida Turpeinen’s translated novel, “Beasts of the Sea” - chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/26/b...
Remembering What We Destroyed in "Beasts of the Sea" - Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Iida Turpeinen’s new novel, "Beasts of the Sea."
chireviewofbooks.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“Turpeinen’s writing has an eerie way of showing us, rather than telling, how tightly an iron chain links human advancement to earthly destruction.”
In @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social, Hannah Korbel reviews Iida Turpeinen’s translated novel, “Beasts of the Sea” - chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/26/b...
In @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social, Hannah Korbel reviews Iida Turpeinen’s translated novel, “Beasts of the Sea” - chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/26/b...
“Říhová’s writing is strongest when she zooms in on the mundane terrors of her story and falters only when she becomes too abstruse.”
In @wirobooks.bsky.social, Mariko Hewer reviews Zuzana Říhová’s newly translated novel, “Playing Wolf” - www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/p...
In @wirobooks.bsky.social, Mariko Hewer reviews Zuzana Říhová’s newly translated novel, “Playing Wolf” - www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/p...
Playing Wolf: A Novel | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“Říhová’s writing is strongest when she zooms in on the mundane terrors of her story and falters only when she becomes too abstruse.”
In @wirobooks.bsky.social, Mariko Hewer reviews Zuzana Říhová’s newly translated novel, “Playing Wolf” - www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/p...
In @wirobooks.bsky.social, Mariko Hewer reviews Zuzana Říhová’s newly translated novel, “Playing Wolf” - www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/p...
“‘Trip’ is a combination of narrative and dogma, ultimately playing out to a conclusion of indifference in the face of self-destruction.”
In The Metropolitan Review, Emma Foley reviews Amie Barrodale’s debut novel, “Trip” - metropolitanreview.com/a-novel-in-t...
In The Metropolitan Review, Emma Foley reviews Amie Barrodale’s debut novel, “Trip” - metropolitanreview.com/a-novel-in-t...
A Novel in the Bardo: On Amie Barrodale's Trip - The Metropolitan Review
I discovered the writing of Amie Barrodale in my college English class while reading an old Los Angeles Review of Books interview with Ottessa Moshfegh, whose short story collection, Homesick for Anot...
metropolitanreview.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“‘Trip’ is a combination of narrative and dogma, ultimately playing out to a conclusion of indifference in the face of self-destruction.”
In The Metropolitan Review, Emma Foley reviews Amie Barrodale’s debut novel, “Trip” - metropolitanreview.com/a-novel-in-t...
In The Metropolitan Review, Emma Foley reviews Amie Barrodale’s debut novel, “Trip” - metropolitanreview.com/a-novel-in-t...
“This is not true crime, but fake true crime, as one critic dubbed it: The crime happened, but Malcolm’s thoughts and reactions are Burnet’s imagining.”
In @theglobeandmail.com, Ian Brown reviews Graeme Macrae Burnet’s new novel, “Benbecula” - www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
In @theglobeandmail.com, Ian Brown reviews Graeme Macrae Burnet’s new novel, “Benbecula” - www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
In Graeme Macrae Burnet’s Benbecula, everything is real – even when it’s not
The crime in this novel actually happened, but the main character’s thoughts and reactions are Burnet’s imagining
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“This is not true crime, but fake true crime, as one critic dubbed it: The crime happened, but Malcolm’s thoughts and reactions are Burnet’s imagining.”
In @theglobeandmail.com, Ian Brown reviews Graeme Macrae Burnet’s new novel, “Benbecula” - www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
In @theglobeandmail.com, Ian Brown reviews Graeme Macrae Burnet’s new novel, “Benbecula” - www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
“The tension she sustains – between reverence and satire, irony and submission – gives the book its austere charge.”
In @lrb.co.uk, Josie Mitchell reviews Kate Riley’s debut novel, “Ruth” - www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
In @lrb.co.uk, Josie Mitchell reviews Kate Riley’s debut novel, “Ruth” - www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Josie Mitchell · Abridged Cow Skeleton: Kate Riley’s ‘Ruth’
In Ruth, Kate Riley layers two views of the church: on the one hand, a hidden but unquestionable authority, ‘like some...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“The tension she sustains – between reverence and satire, irony and submission – gives the book its austere charge.”
In @lrb.co.uk, Josie Mitchell reviews Kate Riley’s debut novel, “Ruth” - www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
In @lrb.co.uk, Josie Mitchell reviews Kate Riley’s debut novel, “Ruth” - www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
“The narrative functions both as wish-fulfillment and an act of mourning.”
In @worldlittoday.bsky.social, Hiranmoy Lahiri reviews Akiyuki Nosaka’s newly translated novella, “Grave of the Fireflies” - worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...
In @worldlittoday.bsky.social, Hiranmoy Lahiri reviews Akiyuki Nosaka’s newly translated novella, “Grave of the Fireflies” - worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...
Repentance and Moral Reckoning: Akiyuki Nosaka’s Grave of the Fireflies, by Hiranmoy Lahiri
Hiranmoy Lahiri reviews Ginny Tapley Takemori’s new translation of Akiyuki Nosaka’s 1967 story, Grave of the Fireflies.
worldliteraturetoday.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“The narrative functions both as wish-fulfillment and an act of mourning.”
In @worldlittoday.bsky.social, Hiranmoy Lahiri reviews Akiyuki Nosaka’s newly translated novella, “Grave of the Fireflies” - worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...
In @worldlittoday.bsky.social, Hiranmoy Lahiri reviews Akiyuki Nosaka’s newly translated novella, “Grave of the Fireflies” - worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...
“Matsuda’s work fits within an aesthetic of the strange that runs through Japanese fiction, and especially Japanese women writers.”
In @fullstopmag.bsky.social, Kaelie Giffel reviews Aoko Matsuda’s newly translated short story collection, “The Woman Dies” - www.full-stop.net/2025/11/21/r...
In @fullstopmag.bsky.social, Kaelie Giffel reviews Aoko Matsuda’s newly translated short story collection, “The Woman Dies” - www.full-stop.net/2025/11/21/r...
The Woman Dies – Aoko Matsuda
The Woman Dies circumvented my critical brain: it made me laugh, shocked me, revealed my tastes to be safe rather than incisive.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“Matsuda’s work fits within an aesthetic of the strange that runs through Japanese fiction, and especially Japanese women writers.”
In @fullstopmag.bsky.social, Kaelie Giffel reviews Aoko Matsuda’s newly translated short story collection, “The Woman Dies” - www.full-stop.net/2025/11/21/r...
In @fullstopmag.bsky.social, Kaelie Giffel reviews Aoko Matsuda’s newly translated short story collection, “The Woman Dies” - www.full-stop.net/2025/11/21/r...
“Throughout the stories in ‘The Pelican Child,’ death and environmental destruction are the two truly inescapable facts of modern life.”
In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, Gideon Leek reviews Joy Williams’s new short story collection, “The Pelican Child” - lareviewofbooks.org/article/our-...
In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, Gideon Leek reviews Joy Williams’s new short story collection, “The Pelican Child” - lareviewofbooks.org/article/our-...
Our Reigning Prophet of Doom | Los Angeles Review of Books
Gideon Leek reviews Joy Williams’s latest story collection, “The Pelican Child.”
lareviewofbooks.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“Throughout the stories in ‘The Pelican Child,’ death and environmental destruction are the two truly inescapable facts of modern life.”
In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, Gideon Leek reviews Joy Williams’s new short story collection, “The Pelican Child” - lareviewofbooks.org/article/our-...
In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, Gideon Leek reviews Joy Williams’s new short story collection, “The Pelican Child” - lareviewofbooks.org/article/our-...
“After a series of cathartic events, Beckett longs for exactly the same mundane daily routines that once trapped him. As in an existentialist play, there is no way out.”
In @reviewcanada.bsky.social, Russell Smith reviews Ian Williams’s new novel, “You’ve Changed” - reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
In @reviewcanada.bsky.social, Russell Smith reviews Ian Williams’s new novel, “You’ve Changed” - reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
Triangle of Sadness | A review of “You’ve Changed” by Ian Williams | Literary Review of Canada
Russell Smith reads Ian Williams latest novel, “You’ve Changed,” a cryptic, circular story about a crumbling marriage.
reviewcanada.ca
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“After a series of cathartic events, Beckett longs for exactly the same mundane daily routines that once trapped him. As in an existentialist play, there is no way out.”
In @reviewcanada.bsky.social, Russell Smith reviews Ian Williams’s new novel, “You’ve Changed” - reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
In @reviewcanada.bsky.social, Russell Smith reviews Ian Williams’s new novel, “You’ve Changed” - reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...