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Aaron Robertson

Aaron Robertson
Aaron Robertson has written for The New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and elsewhere. His translation of Igiaba Scego's novel Beyond Babylon (Two Lines Press, 2019) was shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize and Best Translated Book Award.


Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

The Author of “Counterculture” in Conversation with Aaron Robertson
February 19, 2025  By Aaron Robertson
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A Long, Vital Tradition: Nine Books That Imagine What a Black Utopia Could Be

Aaron Robertson Recommends Victoria Wolcott, Nell Irvin Painter, Wilson Jeremiah Moses, and More
October 2, 2024  By Aaron Robertson
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Here’s how to get a personalized postcard from one of your favorite authors.

November 9, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s novel of industrial farming says more about the humans than the cattle.

November 9, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex trilogy was shaped by the 2008 financial crisis.

November 3, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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The 2020 Albertine Prize shortlist features stories of visceral excess and identity-seeking.

October 30, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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Screen legend Sophia Loren is back in an adaptation of a Goncourt Prize-winning novel.

October 29, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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Arthur Miller’s impressive personal library is going to the New York Public Library.

October 28, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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Artist Richard Kraft is documenting every single Trump transgression from 2017 to 2021.

October 23, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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You can now read the only surviving full draft of a Jane Austen novel, in her very own handwriting.

October 22, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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A letter from a poor Edgar Allan Poe sold for $125,000.

October 20, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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The Italian adaptation of Jack London’s Martin Eden is a dreamlike, Romantic epic.

October 16, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste is about to get some Ava DuVernay energy.

October 14, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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Six writers were awarded a new fellowship for disabled artists.

October 14, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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Because there is no morality in capitalism, Fox News is getting its own imprint at HarperCollins.

October 7, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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The staff of The New Yorker is celebrating a well-earned union victory.

October 6, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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The 1951 adaptation of Native Son (starring Richard Wright) is a darkly satiric noir.

October 5, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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The Witches looks just as zany as any late-1990s Disney Halloween movie.

October 2, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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Jamia Wilson and Kevin Young just became two of the most powerful figures in the literary world.

September 30, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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Exclusive cover reveal: Kaveh Akbar’s new poetry collection, Pilgrim Bell.

September 29, 2020  By Aaron Robertson
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