Love Marilyn Hacker!

“I see more opportunity in telling truer, fuller stories about the guilty—not the lurid ones that end with the conviction…”

It is here and I cannot wait!

Obsessed with the cover art of Ariane Koch's Overstaying (trans. by Damion Searls). It's so good.

“This act of translation, then, was not merely a linguistic task; it was a negotiation of histories, identities, and traumas, all colliding on the page.”

So many good titles on here too!

Shuang-zi Yang’s Taiwanese Travelogue trans. From Mandarin Chinese by Lin King

Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp trans. from Kannada by Deepa Bhashti

Yuko Tsushima’s Wildcat Dome trans. from Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda.

An interesting piece by Rachel Kushner on writing about incarceration, a history of fiction about the topic, the way the carceral state is built into the architecture of our daily lives and more.

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

So excited a new novel by Lucy Tan is Corning! What We Were Promised was so good. I still think about it.

It been a few a days since I finished it, but I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Wildcat Dome by Yuko Tsushima and translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda. A haunting meditation on grief, time, and the aftermath of the US occupation of Japan and it’s dropping of atomic bombs. 🧵

Solitaria by Eliana Alves Cruz & trans. by Benjamin Brooks is just incredible. So so so good. A beautifully written story about a black mother & daughter who work as live-in maids for a rich family. It’s an incisive look at race, class, gender and injustice. It’s a revelation. Buy this book!

New England used Bookstores - a threat.

“One day it happens: what you have feared all your life,
The unendurably specific, the exact thing.”

How Some of It Happened - Marie Howe

Excellent mail today! Just in time for a long weekend.

So good!

From Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Trying to read. The cat has other ideas.

So pumped 😍