BOOKS

Woman, Winter, Work Camp—Guzel Yakhina, ‘Zuleikha,’ trans. Lisa C. Hayden

January 26th, 2020|Country: Russia, Tatarstan|

A forceful, award-winning and debate-sparking debut novel about life in Gulag through the eyes of a diverse cast of characters, with fierce but timid Tatar woman at the forefront

Nothing Great About Great Britain: Alienation by Belonging in Zia Haider Rahman’s ‘In the Light of What We Know’, 2014

January 13th, 2020|Country: Bangladesh, United Kingdom|

A debut novel about a man trying to find acceptance despite the class and race separations is dense with thoughts and revelations, steeped in ice-cold loneliness—an outsider's usual bedfellow

Book: Popol Vuh, trans. Michael Bazzett, 2018

December 2nd, 2019|Country: Guatemala, USA|

The founding narrative of the K’iche’ people is finally available in English verse that delicately frames the glorious adventures of the Maya Hero twins in the underworld and beyond

Book: Patience Agbabi, Telling Tales, 2014

October 24th, 2019|Country: Nigeria, United Kingdom|

A reimagining of the "Canterbury Tales" with sex, sass and grime rhythms: an electrifying collection of poems from a diverse array of characters conceived by British poet of Nigerian descent

Book: Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation, 2013

September 16th, 2019|Country: Algeria|

The brother of the unnamed Arab killed by Camus' Meursault is given the stage in this Goncourt-winning novel: a brilliant post-colonial revision of the existential questions posed in "The Stranger"

Book: Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh, Blossoms in Autumn, 2018

August 24th, 2019|Country: Belgium, Netherlands|

A graphic novel about a romance between two people past their middle age that combines sensuality and complexity: a refreshing, necessary take on modern love and its boundless possibilities

Book: Józef Czapski, Inhuman Land: Searching for the truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942

August 1st, 2019|Country: Iran, Iraq, Poland, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine|

The memoirs of an artist and activist who traveled across USSR in search of Polish POWs during WWII, that give an unflinching account of life in the remote corners of the Soviet empire

Book: Akiyuki Nosaka, The Cake Tree in the Ruins, 1975

July 20th, 2019|Country: Japan|

A collection of sad and brutally honest short stories that give agency to casualties of WWII in Japan from the author of the story that became the basis for the "Grave of the fireflies" cartoon

Book: Pierre-Henry Gomont, Malaterre Part 1, Part 2, 2018

June 28th, 2019|Country: France|

A man tries to reclaim his family's former holdings in one of France's colonies by manipulating his own teenage children in a fantastic double feature written and illustrated by the author

Book: Tom Lanoye, Speechless, 2009

June 18th, 2019|Country: Belgium|

One of Belgium’s foremost writers makes a hybrid memoir about his larger than life mother, her harrowing illness before death, and him coming out to her in petty bourgeoisie surroundings

Book: Jose Manuel Robledo and Marcial Toledano, Ken Games Series, 2009-2017

June 5th, 2019|Country: Spain|

A series of graphic novels from the Spanish powerduo about a group of friends who are hiding their real identities even from each other

Book: Su Wei, Invisible Valley, 2006

May 25th, 2019|Country: China|

A glorious novel of magic, politics and polyamory set in Cultural revolution era rural China

Arundhati Roy’s Freedom to Write Speech, 2019

May 14th, 2019|Country: India, Kashmir|

Fearless writer talks about finding shelter from the tyranny in literature

Book: Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night, 2009

May 12th, 2019|Country: Ireland, Trinidad and Tobago|

A queer Caribbean gothic novel from Irish-Trinidadian author

Book: Saidiya V. Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, 2019

April 11th, 2018|Country: USA|

An imaginative account of the liberation of black straight and queer woman during the reconstruction

Book: Arturo Arias, After the Bombs, 1990

April 5th, 2018|Country: Guatemala|

Book: Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, 1988

March 15th, 2018|Country: Zimbabwe|

Book: Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke, 1937

February 19th, 2018|Country: Poland|

Book: Mikhail Shishkin, Maidenhair, 2005

January 1st, 2018|Country: Russia|

An exquisitely crafted narrative from a Russian writer in exile for Nabokov and Joyce lovers: a polyphony of hybrid texts on migration, love, and the constraints of the Soviet Union

Abkhazia	Congo-Brazzaville	Indonesia	New Zealand	Spain
Afghanistan	Costa Rica	Iran	Nicaragua	Sri Lanka
Albania	Côte d’Ivoire	Iraq	Niger	Sudan
Algeria	Croatia	Ireland	Nigeria	Suriname
Andorra	Cuba	Israel	Niue	Sweden
Angola	Cyprus	Italy	North Korea	Switzerland
Antigua-and-Barbuda	Czech Republic	Iwaidja People	North Ossetia	Syria
Argentina	Dagestan	Jamaica	Norway	Taiwan
Armenia	Denmark	Japan	Oman	Tajikistan
Arrernte	Dominica	Jordan	Pakistan	Tamil Nadu
Aruba	Dominican Republic	Kanak People	Palestine	Tanzania
Australia	DR Congo	Karelia	Panama	Tatarstan
Austria	Dunghutti People	Kashmir	Papua New Guinea	Thailand
Azerbaijan	Ecuador	Kazakhstan	Paraguay	Tibet
Bahamas	Eelam Tamil	Kenya	Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians	Timor-Leste
Bahrain	Egypt	Kosovo	Peru	Tiwi Islands
Balochistan	El Salvador	Kurdistan	Philippines	Togo
Bangladesh	Estonia	Kyrgyzstan	Poland	Tonga
Barbados	Eswatini	Laos	Portugal	Torres Strait Islands
Bashkortostan	Ethiopia	Latvia	Puerto Rico	Transnistria
Belarus	Faroe Islands	Lebanon	Qatar	Trinidad and Tobago
Belgium	Fiji	Liberia	Rapa Nui	Tunisia
Belize	Finland	Libya	Reunion	Turkey
Benin	France	Lithuania	Roma	Turkmenistan
Bermuda	French Guiana	Luxembourg	Romania	Tuvalu
Bhutan	Gabon	Macedonia	Russia	Uganda
Biripi People	Gambia	Madagascar	Rwanda	Ukraine
Bolivia	Garifuna Nation	Malak Malak People	Saint Kitts and Nevis	United Kingdom
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Garrwa People	Malawi	Saint Lucia	Uruguay
Botswana	Georgia	Malaysia	Saint Vincent and The Grenadines	USA
Brazil	Germany	Mali	Samoa	Uyghur Nation
Brunei	Ghana	Malta	San Marino	Uzbekistan
Bulgaria	Golan Heights	Māori	Sao Tome and Principe	Vanuatu
Burkina Faso	Greece	Martinique	Saudi Arabia	Venezuela
Burundi	Greenland	Mauritania	Scotland	Vietnam
Buryatia	Grenada	Mauritius	Senegal	Wales
Cabo Verde	Guatemala	Mexico	Serbia	Wallis and Futuna
Cambodia	Guinea	Moldova	Sierra Leone	Water
Cameroon	Guyana	Monaco	Singapore	Yemen
Canada	Haida Gwaii	Morocco	Slovakia	Yöruk People
Central African Republic	Haiti	Mozambique	Slovenia	Zambia
Chad	Ho-Chunk Nation	Myanmar	Solomon Islands	Zimbabwe
Chile	Honduras	Namibia	Somalia
China	Hong Kong	Native American Tribes	South Africa
Chinook Nation	Hungary	Nepal	South Korea
Colombia	Iceland	Netherlands	South Ossetia
Comoros	India	New Caledonia	South Sudan

BOOKS

Woman, Winter, Work Camp—Guzel Yakhina, ‘Zuleikha,’ trans. Lisa C. Hayden

Nothing Great About Great Britain: Alienation by Belonging in Zia Haider Rahman’s ‘In the Light of What We Know’, 2014

Book: Popol Vuh, trans. Michael Bazzett, 2018

Book: Patience Agbabi, Telling Tales, 2014

Book: Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation, 2013

Book: Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh, Blossoms in Autumn, 2018

Book: Józef Czapski, Inhuman Land: Searching for the truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942

Book: Akiyuki Nosaka, The Cake Tree in the Ruins, 1975

Book: Gaston Dorren, Babel, 2018

Book: Pierre-Henry Gomont, Malaterre Part 1, Part 2, 2018

Book: Tom Lanoye, Speechless, 2009

Book: Jose Manuel Robledo and Marcial Toledano, Ken Games Series, 2009-2017

Book: Su Wei, Invisible Valley, 2006

Arundhati Roy’s Freedom to Write Speech, 2019

Book: Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night, 2009

Book: Saidiya V. Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, 2019

Book: Arturo Arias, After the Bombs, 1990

Book: Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, 1988

Book: Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke, 1937

Book: Mikhail Shishkin, Maidenhair, 2005

ISSUES

POST-SOVIET TERRITORIES

CAPITALISM

FEMALE POWER

BLACK ART MATTERS

MIGRATION

POLITICS

INDIGENOUS

COLONIALISM

COMING OF AGE

DISABILITY

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