Douglas Armstrong’s The Archaeology of Harriet Tubman’s Life in Freedom received the 2022 CNY Book Award for Nonfiction. In addition, Beaver River Country: An Adirondack History by Edward Pitts was one of the finalists. Find the complete list of winners and finalists here.
Gustavo Barbosa’s new book The Best of Hard Times: Palestinian Refugee Masculinities in Lebanon was reviewed in Arab Studies Quarterly.
“Like all serious travellers, Murphy chased the purest experience, was contemptuous of mass-market tourism and yearned for an era when crossing the globe was more difficult.”—Tim Fanning, the Irish Times
The Adirondack Council recommends 5 books to read this winter including Beaver River Country by Edward Pitts and Rural Indigenousness: A History of Iroquoian and Algonquian Peoples of the Adirondacks by Melissa Otis. See the full the list of recommendations here.
“Finding the Music and Rhythm of Zakaria Tamer in English”: A Conversation with Alessandro Columbu on Arablit.
Shelf Awareness interviewed Alessandro Columbu, translator of Zakaria Tamer’s short story collection Sour Grapes, for their “Reading with” series.
Book Culture featured a Q&A with Alexander Elinson, translator of Hot Maroc by Yassin Adnan. “Hot Maroc is very much about Morocco, its linguistic diversity, the messy political scene there, and how young people are defining a new Moroccan identity.”