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December 20, 2024

Gjekë Marinaj’s Teach Me How to Whisper was recognized as South Korea’s 2024 Book of the Year from the literary journal “Lyric Poetry & Poetics.” The journal, which represents all of South Korea’s major universities, is among the country’s most authoritative forums for literary culture.

December 9, 2024

Julie Peteet’s new book The Hammam through Time and Space was reviewed in The Jordan Times.

November 18, 2024

“Khayyat’s monograph is refreshing in its unorthodox and cross-disciplinary choice of objects and methodological approach.”  Now available, War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon by Yasmine Khayyat examines the aesthetics of ruination and resistance in contemporary Lebanese cultural productions. Read the full review

November 13, 2024

The Adirondack Experience hosted Peter Lourie, author of River of Mountains, for a book discussion in their series, In the Adirondack Library. Each month, selected authors will provide a brief overview of their work, followed by insightful interviews with Mitch Teich of North Country Public Radio. The program will conclude with a Q&A session, giving you ...

October 28, 2024

Salt Journals: Tunisian Women on Political Imprisonment was reviewed in The Middle East Eye.

October 28, 2024

Hassouna Mosbahi’s novel We Never Swim in the Same River Twice, translated by William Hutchins, was included in The Markaz’s Top 10 Fall Reading List.

October 14, 2024

For Indigenous Peoples Day, we’re celebrating the work of poet and member of Haudenosaunee tribe Eric Gansworth, whose book, A Half-Life of Cardi-Pulmonary Function charts the tensions of those struggling against the norms of the dominant culture with humor, heart and image-laden lines. Below are excerpts from A Half-Life of Cardi-Pulmonary Function, including some of the ...

September 20, 2024

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.

August 20, 2024

Albanian-born American poet Gjekë Marinaj’s book of poetry, Teach Me How to Whisper was awarded Romania’s “Mihai Eminescu” International Poetry Prize. The award was presented on June 14 in Craiova, Romania, in a ceremony held at the Gloriae Art Gallery. Announcing the prize, the prestigious Romanian literary journal “Constelatii Diamantine” noted that “Teach Me How to ...

August 16, 2024

The latest issue of Fungi Magazine includes a review of Boletes of Eastern North America, noting the new edition is “an improved version of the 2016 release and though the changes may seem subtle, they do make this a much more useful tool.”