Ali Eteraz Akashic Books ($15.95) by Julia Stein Since 2000, writers from central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa have published some brilliant, award-winning novels in English. Pakistani-British Nadeem Aslam’s wonderful Maps for Lost Lovers and Bangladeshi-British Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (both 2004) explore the lives of first generation immigrants in Britain. In the […]

Horacio Castellanos Moya Translated by Lee Klein New Directions ($13.95) by Erik Noonan Readers who appreciate literature that ridicules intolerance and brutality will celebrate the appearance of Lee Klein’s translation of Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador—an essential text in the oeuvre of Honduran-born Salvadoran author Horacio Castellanos Moya—nineteen years after its first publication. Having […]

INTERVIEWS: Multiplicity: An Interview with Ian Hatcher A digital and print explorer of poetic subjects, Ian Hatcher here discusses the challenges of expressing the complexities of human existence. Interviewed by Steven Wingate The Problem with the Future: An Interview with Alexander Weinstein Award-winning author Alexander Weinstein talks about his new collection of short stories and […]