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Books for Review

Poetry

Ian Monk trans. Ian Monk and Philip Terry, 14 x 14 (Sagging Meniscus, 2024)

Ghassan Zaqtan trans. Robin Moger, Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems 2014–2020 (Seagull Books, 2024)

Akram Alkatreb trans. Jonas Elbousty, The Screams of War: Selected Poems (Seagull Books, 2024)

Samira Negrouche trans. Nancy Naomi Carlson, Solio (Seagull Books, 2024)

Robert Kocik, What (Auric Press, 2024)

Safaa Fathy trans. Rawad Z. Wehbe, Where Not to Be Born (Litmus Press, 2024)

Kai Ihns, Of (The Elephants, 2024)

Alexis Almeida, Caetano (The Elephants, 2024)

Emily Martin, My Salvation Lateral (The Elephants, 2024)

Maria Sledmere, Cinders (Krupskaya, 2024)

Jennifer Soong, Comeback Death (Krupskaya, 2024)

Noah Ross, The Dogs (Krupskaya, 2024)

Roberta Iannamico trans. Alexis Almeida, Many Poems (The Song Cave, 2024)

Margaret Ross, Saturday (The Song Cave, 2024)

Zan de Perry, Cold Dogs (The Song Cave, 2024)

Morgan Võ, The Selkie (The Song Cave, 2024)

Alan Felsenthal, Hereafter (The Song Cave, 2024)

Emily Hunt, Stranger (The Song Cave, 2024)

Tomasz Rozycki trans. Mira Rosenthal, To the Letter: Poems (Archipelago Books, 2024)

Eliana Hernández-Pachón trans. Robin Myers, The Brush (Archipelago Books, 2024)

Isabel Zapata, A Whale Is a Country (Fonograf Editions, 2024)

Gabriel Palacios, A Ten Peso Burial for Which Truth I Sign (Fonograf Editions, 2024)

Laura Newbern, A Night in the Country (Changes Press, 2024)

Maria Stepanova trans. Sasha Dugdale, Holy Winter (New Directions, 2024)

Sylvia Legris, The Principle of Rapid Peering (New Directions, 2024)

Tatsuhiko Ishii trans. Hiroaki Sato, Bathhouse and Other Tanka (New Directions, 2024)

Roberto Harrison, Isthmus to Abya Yala (City Lights, 2024)

Martin Wong, Footprints, Poems, and Leaves (Primary Information, 2024)

Rosa Alcalá, YOU (Coffee House Press, 2024)

J. H. Prynne, Poems 2016–2024 (Bloodaxe, 2024)

Jay Ritchie, Listening in Many Publics (Invisible Publishing, 2024)

Jena Osman, A Very Large Array: Selected Poems (DABA, 2023)

Christina Chalmers, Subterflect (Distance No Object, 2023)

Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi, Daffod*ls (Pamenar Press, 2023)

Roque Dalton trans. Jack Hirschman and Barbara Paschke, Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle (Seven Stories Press, 2023)

Alex Hampshire, Appreciate the Pre-Decisions (New Books, 2023)

Joel Newberger, In Titan’s Goblet (New Books, 2023)

Tamas Panitz, Wild Lies (New Books, 2023)

Jonny Collazo, The High and the Low (New Books, 2023)

Nolan Bibb, Abandoned Love Letters from the Uncompassionate (New Books, 2023)

Joel Dailey, New Details Emerge (New Books, 2023)

Marlon Hacla trans. Kristine Ong Muslim, Glossolalia (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023)

Isadoro Saturno trans. E. R. Pulgar, dear parent or guardian (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023)

Stephanie Borges trans. Livia Azevedo Lima, Made of Dream (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023)

Sinan Antoon, Postcards from the Underworld (Seagull Books, 2023)

Luigi di Ruscio trans. Cristina Viti, Selected Poems (Seagull Books, 2023)

Sarah Burgoyne and Vi Khi Nao, Mechanophilia (Anvil Press, 2023)

Yarrow Yes Woods, Death And (Inside the Castle, 2023)

Violet Spurlock, In Lieu of Solutions (Futurepoem Books, 2023)

Mireille Gansel trans. Joan Seliger Sidney, Soul House (World Poetry Books, 2023)

Mariela Dreyfus trans. Gabriel Amor, Music Notebook (Cardboard House Press, 2023)

Yaxkin Melchy trans. Ryan Greene, Poetechnics (Cardboard House Press, 2023)

Tilsa Otta trans. Honora Spicer, And Suddenly I Was Just Dancing (Cardboard House Press, 2023)

Joseph Lease, Fire Season (Chax, 2023)

Mutsuo Takahashi trans. Jeffrey Angles, Only Yesterday (Canarium Books, 2023)

C. S. Giscombe, Negro Mountain (University of Chicago Press, 2023)

Patricia Spears Jones, The Beloved Community (Copper Canyon Press, 2023)

Claire DeVoogd, Via (Winter Editions, 2023)

Hélio Oiticica trans. Rebecca Kosick, Secret Poetics (Soberscove Press & Winter Editions, 2023)

Ahmad Almallah, Border Wisdom (Winter Editions, 2023)

Monica McClure, The Gone Thing (Winter Editions, 2023)

Nay Saysourinho, The Capture of Krao Farini (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023)

Holly Melgard, Read Me: Selected Works (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023)

Dominic Hand, The Data Harvest (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)

Liliane Giraudon trans. Lindsay Turner and Sarah Riggs, Love Is Colder than the Lake (Nightboat Books, 2024)

Liliane Giraudon trans. Lindsay Turner, Sphinx (Litmus Press, 2023)

Serena Solin, The Stay Behind (Beautiful Days Press, 2023)

Wendy Lotterman, A Reaction to Someone Coming in (Futurepoem Books, 2023)

Kim Rosenfield, Phantom Captain (Fence Books, 2023)

Ida Börjel trans. Jennifer Hayashida, MA (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023)

Eran Eads, Cran (Rebel Satori Press, 2023)

Mirta Rosenberg trans. Yaki Setton and Sergio Waisman, Interior Landscape (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023)

Joseph Minden, Backlogues (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)

Stella Corso, Green Knife (Rescue Press, 2023)

Anselm Hollo, The Collected Poems of Anselm Hollo (Coffee House Press, 2023)

Sara Larsen, Detonated Mirror (The Elephants, 2023)

Emily Martin, Marking a Salt Ridge (Erotoplasty Editions, 2023)

JJJJJerome Ellis, Aster of Ceremonies (Milkweed Editions, 2023)

Kat Addis, THE SONG OF THE FUCKING ROSE (slub press, 2023)

Mark Hyatt, So Much For Life, eds. Sam Ladkin & Luke Roberts (Nightboat, 2023)

Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola, The Telaraña Circuit (Tender Buttons Press, 2023)

Owen Fortunato Brakspear, water year (Erotoplasty Editions, 2023)

Graham Foust, Terminations (Flood Editions, 2023)

Calvin C. Hernton, Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton (Wesleyan University Press, 2023)

Kazim Ali, Sukun: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2023)

Milo Wippermann, Joan of Arkansas (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023)

Jahan Khajavi, Feast of the Ass (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023)

Richard Hell, What Just Happened (Winter Editions, 2023)

Robert Desnos trans. Lewis Warsh, Night of Loveless Nights (Winter Editions, 2023)

Garth Graeper, The Sky Broke More (Winter Editions, 2023)

Patrick Morrissey, Light Box (Verge Books, 2023)

Timothy Donnelly, Chariot (Wave Books, 2023)

Calvin C. Hernton, Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2023)

Jay Besemer, Men & Sleep (meekling press, 2023)

Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine trans. Jane Syersak, Proximal Morocco— (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023)

Elizabeth Arnold, Wave House (Flood Editions, 2023)

David Brazil, Profane Hours: A Book of Versions (Free Poetry, 2023)

Kristofor Minta, A Perfectly Ruined Solitude (Sublunary Editions, 2023)

Carlos Lara, NO MATERIAL (Black Sun Lit, 2023)

Ronald Johnson, The Valley of Many-Colored Grasses (The Song Cave, 2023)

Joshua Edwards, A Monthly Account of the Year Leading Up to the End of the World, by AGONISTES, Prophet and Fulfiller or The Exhausted Dream (Marfa Book Company, 2023)

Antonella Anedda trans. Patrizio Ceccagnoli and Susan Stewart, Historiae (NYRB Poets, 2023)

Maria Sledmere, Cherry Nightshade (slub press, 2023)

Verity Spott, Songs of the Morning (slub press, 2023)

Anthony Madrid, Whatever’s Forbidden the Wise (Canarium Books, 2023)

Kelly Hoffer, Undershore (Lightscatter Press, 2023)

Evie Shockley, suddenly we (Wesleyan University Press, 2023)

Anthony Robinson, Failures of the Poets (Canarium Books, 2023)

Zoe Tuck, Bedroom Vowel (BUNNY/Fonograf Editions, 2023)

Bill Carty, We Sailed on the Lake (BUNNY/Fonograf Editions, 2023)

Haroldo de Campos, Galaxias (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023)

Lightsey Darst, the heiress / ghost acres (Coffee House, 2023)

Eric Sneathen, Don’t Leave Me This Way (Nightboat Books, 2023)

Emily Lee Luan, 回 / Return (Nightboat Books, 2023)

Brandon Shimoda, Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023)

Orides Fontela trans. Chris Daniels, One Impossible Step (Nightboat Books, 2023)

Kevin Holden, Pink Noise (Nightboat Books, 2023)

Salette Tavares trans. Isabel Sobral Campos, Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton, Lex Icon (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023).

Marlon Hacla trans. Kristine Ong Muslim, Glossolalia (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023)

Sabrian Ramos Rubén trans. S. Yates Gibson, Song of the Absent Brook (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023)

Will Harris, Brother Poem (Wesleyan University Press, 2023)

Ranjit Hoskote, Icelight (Wesleyan University Press, 2023)

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat trans. Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems (Milkweed Editions, 2022)

 

Fiction

Cui Zi’en, Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet (Duke University Press, 2024)

Martin Wong, Das Puke Book (Primary Information, 2024)

Ghassan Zaqtan trans. Samuel Wilder, An Old Carriage with Curtains (Seagull Books, 2024)

Jacob Israël de Haan trans. Brian Doyle Du Breuil, Pathologies (Seagull Books, 2024)

Rachilde trans. Sue Boswell, The Blood-Guzzler and Other Stories (Snuggly Books, 2024)

Arnaud Rykner trans. Sue Boswell, Me and My King (Snuggly Books, 2024)

Karel Čapek, Krakatit (Snuggly Books, 2024)

Noémi Kiss-Deáki, Mary and the Rabbit Dream (Galley Beggar Press, 2024)

Daisuke Shen, Vague Predictions & Prophecies (Clash, 2024)

Vi Khi Nao, The Italy Letters (Melville House, 2024)

Kit Schluter, Cartoons (City Lights, 2024)

Lucas Rijneveld trans. Michele Hutchison, My Heavenly Favorite (Graywolf, 2024)

Kang Young-sook trans. Kim Boram and Janet Hong, Rina (Open Letter, 2024)

Ha Seong-nan trans. Janet Hong, Wafers (Open Letter, 2024)

Julia Armfield, Private Rites (Fourth Estate, 2024)

Vladimir Sorokin trans. Max Lawton, Blue Lard (NYRB, 2024)

Eugene Lim, Fog & Car (Coffee House Press, 2024)

Hari Krishna Kaul trans. Kalpana Raina et al., For Now, It Is Night (Archipelago Books, 2024)

César Aira trans. Katherine Silver, Festival & Game of the Worlds (New Directions, 2024)

Fernando Vallejo trans. Yvette Siegert, The Abyss (New Directions, 2024)

Jenny Erpenbeck trans. Michael Hoffmann, Kairos (New Directions, 2024)

Robert Plunket, Love Junkie (New Directions, 2024)

Evelio Rosero trans. Anne McLean and Victor Meadowcroft, Way Far Away (New Directions, 2024)

José Donoso trans. Megan McDowell et al., The Obscene Bird of Night (New Directions, 2024)

László Krasznahorkai trans. George Szirtes et al., The World Goes On (New Directions, 2024)

Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over (New Directions, 2024)

Liliana Colanzi trans. Chris Andrews, You Glow in the Dark (New Directions, 2024)

Osamu Dazai trans. Ralph McCarthy, Self-Portraits: Stories (New Directions, 2024)

Alexis Wright, Praiseworthy (New Directions, 2024)

Mathias Énard trans. Frank Wayne, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild (New Directions, 2024)

Christopher Norris, The Holy Day (Rose Books, 2023)

Geoff Rickly, Someone Who Isn’t Me (Rose Books, 2023)

Adam Biles, Beasts of England (Galley Beggar Press, 2023)

Un-Su Kim trans. Sean Lin Halbert, The Cabinet (Angry Robot, 2023)

Juan Rulfo trans. Douglas J. Weatherford, Pedro Páramo (Grove Press, 2023)

Andrés Neuman trans. Robin Myers, Bariloche (Open Letter, 2023)

Juan Cárdenas trans. Lizzie Davis, The Devil of the Provinces (Coffee House Press, 2023)

Mónica Ojeda trans. Sarah Booker, Nefando (Coffee House Press, 2023)

Kate Briggs, The Long Form (Dorothy Project, 2023)

Pip Adam, The New Animals (Dorothy Project, 2023)

Ebru Ojen trans. Aron Aji, Lojman (City Lights, 2023)

Vénus Khoury-Ghata trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan, The Fiancée Rode In on a Donkey (Seagull Books, 2023)

Mahasweta Devi trans. Anjum Katyal, Truth/Untruth (Seagull Books, 2023)

Amin Maalouf trans. Natasha Lehrer, On the Isle of Antioch (World Editions, 2023)

Yan Lianke trans. Carlos Rojas, Heart Sutra (Grove Press, 2023)

Oksana Lutsyshyna trans. Nina Murray, Ivan and Phoebe (Deep Vellum, 2023)

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz trans. Douglas Robertson, The Country Preacher (Sublunary Editions, 2023)

Margery Latimer, Twelve Stories (Sublunary Editions, 2023)

Augusto Monterroso trans. Jessica Sequeira, The Gold Seekers (Sublunary Editions, 2023)

Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Trouble Finds You (Fonograf Editions, 2023)

Michel Surya trans. Kit Schluter, Dead End (Black Sun Lit, 2023)

Siamak Herawi trans. Sara Khalili, Tali Girls: A Novel of Afghanistan (Archipelago Books, 2023)

Sara Gallardo trans. Frances Riddle and Maureen Shaughnessy, January (Archipelago Books, 2023)

Emily Zhou, Girlfriends (LittlePuss Press, 2023)

Hiromi Kawakami trans. Ted Goossen, Dragon Palace (Stone Bridge Press, 2023)

Rachel Ingalls, In the Act (New Directions, 2023)

David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress (Dalkey Archive, 2023)

Augusto Higa Oshiro trans. Jennifer Shyue, The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu (Archipelago Books, 2023)

Jon Bilbao trans. Katie Whittemore, The Strangers (Dalkey Archive, 2023)

Mário de Andrade trans. Katrina Dodson, Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character (New Directions, 2023)

Frederika Amalia Finkelstein trans. Isabel Cout & Christopher Elson, Forgetting (Deep Vellum, 2023)

Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny trans. JD Pluecker, Trash (Deep Vellum, 2023)

Mario Bellatin trans. David Shook, Etchepare (Deep Vellum, 2023)

Gisela Heffes trans. Grady C. Wray, Ischia (Deep Vellum, 2023)

Esther Kinsky trans. Caroline Schmidt, Rombo (NYRB, 2023)

Aurora Venturini trans. Kit Maude, Cousins (Soft Skull, 2023)

Dominique Fabre trans. Anna Lehmann, My Life as Edgar (Archipelago Books, 2023)

 

Nonfiction/Theory & Criticism

Mario Tronti trans. Matteo Mandarini, The Twilight of Politics (Seagull Books, 2024)

Paolo Virno trans. Lorenzo Chiesa, An Essay on Negation: Towards a Linguistic Anthropology (Seagull Books, 2024)

Karl Marx trans. Paul Reitter, Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume I (Princeton University Press, 2024)

Beverley Best, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital (Verso, 2024)

Valery Podoroga, Mimesis: The Literature of the Soviet Avant-garde (Verso, 2024)

Francis Mulhern and Stefan Collini, What Is Cultural Criticism? (Verso, 2024)

Legacy Russell, Black Meme: The History of the Images That Make Us (Verso, 2024)

Regina Marie Mills, Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades (University of Texas, 2024)

Matthew Kilbane, The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024)

Christopher T. Fan, Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia University Press, 2024) 

Julia Bloch, Lyric Trade: Reading the Subject in the Postwar Long Poem (University of Iowa, 2024)

Mabel Moraña trans. Stephanie Kirk, “We, the Barbarians”: Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century (Vanderbilt University Press, 2024)

Carlos Monsiváis trans. Norma Kahn and Ilana Luna, Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist: A Critical History of Women, Patriarchy, and Mexican National Discourse (Vanderbilt University Press, 2024)

Tiffany Sia, On and Off-Screen Imaginaries (Primary Information, 2024)

Hebe Uhart trans. Anna Vilner, A Question of Belonging (Archipelago Books, 2024)

Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno, Tone (Columbia University Press, 2023)

Maure Coise, Structuring Information (Inside the Castle, 2023)

Jordan/Martin Hell, Autolingo Didactica (Monitor Books, 2023)

Blake Butler, Molly (Archway Editions, 2023)

Conor “Coco” Tomás Reed, New York Liberation School: Study and Movement for the People’s University (Common Notions, 2023)

Nora E. H. Parr, Novel Palestine: Nation through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah (University of California Press, 2023)

Rosario Hubert, Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literatures (Northwestern University Press, 2023)

Ashley R. Brock, Dwelling in Fiction: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America (Northwestern University Press, 2023)

Jennie Irene Daniels, Anything but Novel: Pushing the Margins in Latin American Post-Utopian Historical Narrative (University of Alabama, 2023)

Theodor Adorno trans. Wieland Hoban, Without Model (Seagull Books, 2023)

Justin Phillip Reed, With Bloom Upon Them and Also with Blood: A Horror Miscellany (Coffee House Press, 2023)

A. V. Marraccini, We the Parasites (Sublunary Editions, 2023)

Emily Simon, In Many Ways (Winter Editions, 2023)

Joseph Pizza, Dissonant Voices: Race, Jazz, and Innovative Poetics in Midcentury America (University of Iowa Press, 2023)

Joe Luna, Somewhere Else in the Market: An Essay on the Poetry of J. H. Prynne (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Alexandra J. Gold, The Collaborative Artist’s Book: Evolving Ideas in Contemporary Poetry and Art (University of Iowa Press, 2023)

Amy Paeth, The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State (Columbia University Press, 2023)

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, A Long Essay on the Long Poem (Alabama, 2023)

Isabel C. Gómez, Cannibal Translation: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America (Northwestern, 2023)

Kathy E. Ferguson, Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture (Duke, 2023)

Ghassan Kanafani trans. Mahmoud Najib, On Zionist Literature (Ebb Books, 2022)

 

Miscellaneous

Gil Cuadros, My Body Is Paper: Stories and Poems (City Lights, 2024)

AM Ringwalt, What Floods (Inside the Castle, 2024)

Garrett Strickland, A Place Beyond (Inside the Castle, 2024)

Kyle Booten, Salon des Fantômes (Inside the Castle, 2023)

Logan Berry, Casket Flare (Inside the Castle, 2023)

Melinda Mátyus trans. Jozefina Komporaly, MyLifeandMyLife (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023)

Danielle Dutton, Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other (Coffee House Press, 2023)

Sarah Coolidge, ed., Elektrik: Caribbean Writing (Two Lines Press, 2023)

Dorothee Elmiger trans. Megan Ewing, Out of the Sugar Factory (Two Lines Press, 2023)

Michael Corris, Stéphane Mroczkowski, Alexandra Pignol, Marjorie Welish, Subject to Change (Mare & Martin, 2023)

Cesare Pavese trans. William Arrowsmith and D. S. Carne-Ross, Dialogues with Leucò (Sublunary Editions, 2023)

Eugene Jolas, Secession in Astropolis (Sublunary Editions, 2023)

Jed Munson, Commentary on the Birds (Rescue Press, 2023)

Dennis James Sweeney, You’re The Woods Too (Essay Press, 2023)

Eric Wilson, The View from Howard’s Fuck Pad: The Deep State, Bad White Men, and the Weird Noir of James Ellroy (Punctum, 2023)

Stephanie Anderson and Kristen Tapson, eds., All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge (University of New Mexico, 2023)

 

Updated February 16, 2024