Set in a futuristic, dystopian world reshaped by climate change, Yoko Tawada’s "Scattered All Over the Earth" celebrates cross-cultural, crosslinguistic friendships. An... Read More

Nabarun Bhattacharya’s "Harbart" is a wild ride—a short novel that documents the unexpected rise and precipitous fall of Harbart’s fortunes in vibrant, humorous prose. The... Read More

"The Beekeeper" is Dunya Mikhail’s haunting account of Abdullah, who devoted his life to rescuing mostly Yazidi women and children kidnapped and kept captive by the Daesh, aka... Read More

A major and important book, "Go, Went, Gone" tackles the issue of human displacement with intelligence and empathy. This powerful German novel in translation humanizes refugees... Read More

Uniqueness and influence converge in these rich and impressive poems. In his foreword for this impressive collection, Harold Bloom, author of The Anxiety of Influence, expresses... Read More

For the contemporary reader, this book will perhaps be redolent of the film Il Postino (The Postman), which was set on the Isle of Capri, where the poet lived in exile with his... Read More

Peter Cole is well known for his many translations from Hebrew and Arabic. He is also a 2007 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and co-editor of Ibis Editions (Jerusalem). In this... Read More