Articles

20 Novels In Translation You Need to Read this Winter and Spring
Feb 20 - JR Ramakrishnan

Justin Torres Re-Maps Queer History
Oct 24 - JR Ramakrishnan

Gabriela Wiener Challenges the White Man in Her Head
Oct 11 - JR Ramakrishnan

Escaping Society by Living on Top of a Coca-Cola Billboard
Feb 23 - JR Ramakrishnan

My Work-Life Balance Improved Dramatically With My Fake Pregnancy
Sep 20 - JR Ramakrishnan

On a South Pacific Island, Two Siblings Face a Difficult Choice as Racial Tensions Flare
Jun 28 - JR Ramakrishnan

Mothering as a Radical Path Towards Social Change
Jun 14 - JR Ramakrishnan

A Vampire Hungry for Blood and Intimacy
Apr 20 - JR Ramakrishnan

What Does It Mean to Be a Poet in a Country Full of Great Poets?
Mar 18 - JR Ramakrishnan

7 New and Forthcoming Books by Writers Over 60
Jan 18 - JR Ramakrishnan

7 Literary Translators on How They Became Translators
Dec 16 - JR Ramakrishnan

A Novel About Privilege and Class Set in Modern-Day Cairo
Oct 14 - JR Ramakrishnan

Why Are Americans So Lonely?
Oct 7 - JR Ramakrishnan

7 Literary Translators Whose Work You Should Read
Jul 29 - JR Ramakrishnan

A Queer Indo-Guyanese Poet’s Postcolonial Memoir of His Search for Belonging
Jun 22 - JR Ramakrishnan

Witchcraft, Hysterical Teenagers, and Heart Fetishists
Jan 21 - JR Ramakrishnan

7 (More) Literary Translators You Should Know
Dec 31 - JR Ramakrishnan

In Samanta Schweblin’s New Novel, The Panopticon Is Cute
Nov 12 - JR Ramakrishnan

7 Literary Translators You Need to Know
Nov 6 - JR Ramakrishnan

What Happens When Your Grandma Turns Into a Bird
Oct 29 - JR Ramakrishnan

For Laura Van den Berg’s Women, There’s No Easy Way Out
Oct 16 - JR Ramakrishnan

America Has Never Wanted Non-White Citizens
Sep 22 - JR Ramakrishnan

An Unconventional Love Story, Told In Trinidadian Dialect
Aug 4 - JR Ramakrishnan

A Ghost Haunts the Tokyo Olympics
Jul 24 - JR Ramakrishnan

A Town Taken Over by Children from the Rainforest
Jul 16 - JR Ramakrishnan

The Untold POC History of California
Jun 26 - JR Ramakrishnan

4 Working-Class Women Fight For Success in Hyper-Competitive Seoul
Jun 18 - JR Ramakrishnan

A Magical Realist Novel Inspired by Hawaiian Mythology
Apr 30 - JR Ramakrishnan

“Real Life” Captures the Loneliness of Being Black and Queer on Campus
Mar 6 - JR Ramakrishnan

How Do You Translate Intergenerational Trauma?
Feb 28 - JR Ramakrishnan

Jenny Offill Is a Climate Change Doomer
Feb 11 - JR Ramakrishnan

A Daughter Returns to Her Homeland to Search For Truth
Jan 24 - JR Ramakrishnan

What If the Afterlife Sucks?
Jan 14 - JR Ramakrishnan

9 Unmissable Translated Novels First Published in English This Year
Dec 5 - JR Ramakrishnan

7 London Novels by Writers of Color
Dec 2 - JR Ramakrishnan

A Novella About Chilean History, Structured Like an Arcade Game
Nov 13 - JR Ramakrishnan

7 Books Set in New Orleans That Go Beyond Mardi Gras
Oct 9 - JR Ramakrishnan

Racism in France Isn’t Just About the Color of Your Skin
Oct 8 - JR Ramakrishnan

‘Gun Island’ Is a Surreal Novel About Climate Change and Migration
Sep 10 - JR Ramakrishnan

The Life of a Male Writer, Told By the Women Who Couldn’t Write His Story
Sep 6 - JR Ramakrishnan

“This Land Is Our Land” Is the Manifesto We Need at a Time When Immigration Is Being Criminalized
Jul 30 - JR Ramakrishnan

“The Weight of Our Sky” Uses Fiction to Reckon with Malaysia’s Unspoken History
Apr 22 - JR Ramakrishnan

In Laila Lalami’s novel, Immigrants Are Fully-Realized People—and So Are Racists
Apr 3 - JR Ramakrishnan

An Indonesian Poet Uses Queer Catholic Saints to Create an Alternative Gospel
Mar 14 - JR Ramakrishnan

7 Books Set in Mexico City to Read After You’ve Watched “Roma”
Feb 27 - JR Ramakrishnan

What to Read When You’re Infatuated
Feb 14 - JR Ramakrishnan

Ayesha Harruna Attah Reimagines the Fate of Her Enslaved Ancestor in “The Hundred Wells of Salaga”
Feb 11 - JR Ramakrishnan

7 Books that Illuminate the People and Places on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Dec 28 - JR Ramakrishnan

What To Read When You Can’t Think About Anything But How the World Has Gone to Hell
Dec 21 - JR Ramakrishnan

7 International Novels for Food Lovers
Nov 22 - JR Ramakrishnan

A Reading List of Books Published Posthumously
Nov 2 - JR Ramakrishnan

What to Read When You’re Going Through A Friend Breakup
Oct 26 - JR Ramakrishnan

‘If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi’ Is a Midwestern Indian Americana that Eschews Stereotypes
Oct 19 - JR Ramakrishnan

Fatima Farheen Mirza on Having Sarah Jessica Parker as an Editor
Oct 1 - JR Ramakrishnan

7 Books for People Who Need Their Alone Time
Jul 17 - JR Ramakrishnan

7 Short Story Collections To Read This Year
May 23 - JR Ramakrishnan

An Indonesian Poet on Writing a Narrator Who is a Colonizer and a Colonist
Apr 24 - JR Ramakrishnan

Reviving India’s Heroes & Heroines
Dec 8 - JR Ramakrishnan

Eka Kurniawan on Indonesia and Magical Realism
Jan 28 - JR Ramakrishnan

Books As Medicine: A Conversation With Sandra Cisneros
Nov 2 - JR Ramakrishnan
