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September 26, 2025

Castigation by Sultan Raev and translated from the Kyrgyz by Shelley Fairweather-Vega was reviewed in Asymptote. “Rich with polyphony and plethoric subtexts, Castigation rewards careful reading—and rereading.” Read full review

August 29, 2025

Adirondack Daily Enterprise reviews Sketching the Adirondacks: Letters from the Wilderness by Edward I. Pitts “Today, travel through the Adirondacks is easy, summer traffic notwithstanding. This entertaining and instructive volume will convince any reader that it wasn’t always so.” Read full review

August 20, 2025

“A gripping work of speculative fiction—thought-provoking, unsettling, and difficult to put down. Zaghmount’s imaginative story forces us to question the “natural” order of our own world, revealing just how arbitrary and dangerous such hierarchies can be.”—Underrated Reads Read the full review

August 20, 2025

Antidote Zine published interview with Shareah Taleghani, author of Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights that explores the intertwined relationships between prison writings, oppositional political movements in Syria, and modern Arabic literary experimentalism. Read the interview

August 11, 2025

Talin Suciyan, author of Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces was interviewed by Ari Barbalat on the New Books Network. Summary: The history of Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire has largely been narrated as a unique period of equality, reform, and progress, often framing it as the backdrop to modern Turkey. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s exhortation ...

July 2, 2025

We Never Swim in the Same River Twice by Hassouna Mosbahi and translated was recently reviewed by World Literature Today “Mosbahi’s high reputation as a novelist will not be hurt by this very readable work, which gives a vivid if not especially pleasant picture of post–Arab Spring Tunisia; nor will anyone but the most intransigent of ...

June 16, 2025

When Harry met Wally, the result was a definitive book on how to watch television by Rick Kogan They were young wide-eyed students when they met at Northwestern University. Walter Podrazik was from Bridgeport and Harry Castleman from Boston and it did not take them long to discover that they shared a passion for The Beatles. They ...

May 22, 2025

Empires in Friction: Egypt in the Sixteenth Century by Nelly Hanna was reviewed in the latest issue of Choice. “A compellingly revised history of Ottoman Egypt’s transformation from a turbulent, newly conquered, formerly Mamluk territory in 1517 to a bureaucratically regulated, financially productive Ottoman province in the last decades of the 16th century.” Read the full review

April 24, 2025

Fadi Zaghmout’s forthcoming novel The Man of Middling Height is included in Bookstr’s round up of Amazing Arab Sci-Fi Authors You Need to Read.

April 2, 2025

Ibtisam Azem discusses The Book of Disappearance on Electric Lit. The book  grapples with both the memory of loss and the loss of memory for the Palestinians. Presenting a narrative that is often marginalized, Antoon’s translation of the critically acclaimed Arabic novel invites English readers into the complex lives of Palestinians living in Israel. Read the ...