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.
Mohamed Makhzangi’s Animals in Our Days: A Book of Stories was included in the May/June Watchlist from Words Without Borders.
“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
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.
Anjili Babbar’s new book Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction was reviewed in the Washington Independent Review of Books.
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.
Arab America featured an interview with May Rihani, niece of Ameen Rihani and Director of of the George and Lisa Zakhem Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace at the University of Maryland. She discussed the new translation of The Heart of Lebanon and Rihani’s role as a bridge between the East and the West. Read the full interview here. “The book has a timelessness to it that all readers will enjoy.”
Yassin Adnan’s novel Hot Maroc, translated by Alexander Elinson, was included in Asymptote’s roundup of new translations in July 2021. “The satirical novel, deftly translated by Alexander E. Elinson, is unmistakably Moroccan, but deals with universal issues: political corruption, blowhards and know-it-alls, and internet anonymity.” Read the full review