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Aeneid
Engaging, swift, and immersive, Gerald J. Davis’s translation of "Aeneid" keeps the poetry alive inside the vessel of prose. Gerald J. Davis’s new translation of Virgil’s classic poem "Aeneid" is both inventive and traditional....
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Book Review
Engaging, swift, and immersive, Gerald J. Davis’s translation of "Aeneid" keeps the poetry alive inside the vessel of prose. Gerald J. Davis’s new translation of Virgil’s classic poem "Aeneid" is both inventive and traditional....
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The end is a new beginning for a young man named in defiance of death in Alain Mabanckou’s otherworldly novel "Dealing with the Dead". On Independence Day for the Republic of the Congo, Liwa, a hotel cook, gets dressed up, receives his...
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by Ryan Prado
Giving life to the incidental, the forgotten, and the ignored, "The Shadow of the Mammoth", Fabio Morábito’s collection of eighteen distinctive, heartbreaking, and quirky tales, skews the intricacies of existence and compassion...
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Soft brushstrokes and ink wash illustrations follow a creature from Chinese folklore on a blustery adventure in this mythical tale. Inspired by a classical Chinese poem of the same name, the book follows a young Treeling (a childlike...
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by Meg Nola
Éliette Abécassis’s taut and poignant novel uses reverse chronology to explore significant moments in the lives of a Parisian couple. Jules and Alice meet in the Jardin du Luxembourg in 1955, when Alice is eighteen and Jules is...
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A surreal neon dream, this picture book is an ode to the sea, to connection, and to weathering the storm. Neon pinks, yellows, greens, and blues leap out from dark backdrops, depicting the lighthouse keeper’s ever-growing beard of...
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by Meg Nola
In Mariana Travacio’s compact and lyrical novel "All That Dies in April", a woman leaves the parched landscape of her village above the Argentinian pampas to search for the sea. For fourteen years, Lina begged her husband Relicario to...
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by Meg Nola
In Jacqueline Harpman’s riveting novel "I Who Have Never Known Men", a girl emerges from dehumanizing confinement into a troubled and deserted landscape. Following a terrifying event called “the disaster,” thirty-nine women are...
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