“Irish Bildungsroman” editors interviewed on New Books Network
Gregory Castle, Sarah Townsend, and Matt Reznicek, editors of The Irish Bildungsroman were interviewed on New Books Network’s Literary Studies channel.
“Politics as Worship” reviewed in IJMES
Sumita Pahwa’s recent book Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers was reviewed in the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
“Stateless” receives USC Book Prize Honorable Mention from ASEEES
Congratulations to Talar Chahinian! Her recent book Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile received a 2024 University of California Book Prize Honorable Mention from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
“The Book of Disappearance” is longlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize
Ibtisam Azem’s novel The Book of Disappearance, translated from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon, has been longlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize. The prize, which is awarded annually, celebrates the best works of long-form fiction or collections of short stories translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland.
Adirondack Photographers reviewed in The Adirondack Daily Enterprise
Animals in Our Days in Words Without Borders
Mohamed Makhzangi’s Animals in Our Days: A Book of Stories was included in the May/June Watchlist from Words Without Borders.
Boiling Point for Jam reviewed on the Poetry Foundation’s blog Harriet Books
“The Boiling Point for Jam, by Irish writer Lynda Tavakoli, is a debut with the scope of a new and collected. Like a modern Angel of History, the speaker in these poems observes how ‘the past becomes the present / and the present loiters somewhere in the past,’ how even as we move, inexorably, into the future, our perspective remains locked in remembrance.” —Harriet Books
Café Shira in JBC’s annual Book Club Reading Guide
David Ehrlich’s posthumous novel Café Shira is featured in the Jewish Book Council’s annual Book Club Reading Guide. Get your copy of the guide here.
Finders reviewed in Washington Independent Review of Books
Anjili Babbar’s new book Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction was reviewed in the Washington Independent Review of Books.
Finding Judge Crater featured on Vanished podcast
Stephen Riegel’s recent book Finding Judge Crater: A Life and Phenomenal Disappearance in Jazz Age New York was the subject of the latest episode of the “Vanished” podcast.