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The Best Reviewed Literature in Translation of 2020

The Best Reviewed Literature in Translation of 2020

Featuring Elena Ferrante, Isabel Allende, Sayaka Murata,
Samanta Schweblin, and more

By Book Marks | December 18, 2020

Cathy Song on the Slowness and Ritual-Making of Lockdown

Cathy Song on the Slowness and Ritual-Making of Lockdown

In Conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | December 18, 2020

Jared Diamond on the Global Climate Crisis and the Case for Hope

Jared Diamond on the Global Climate Crisis and the Case for Hope

The Author of Upheaval in Conversation with Anders Dunker

By Anders Dunker | December 18, 2020

When Should You Start Reading Shel Silverstein to Your Kids?

When Should You Start Reading Shel Silverstein to Your Kids?

The Literary Disco Crew Discusses Shel Silverstein

By Literary Disco | December 18, 2020

Rabih Alameddine's Year in Reading: Poetry Edition

Rabih Alameddine's Year in Reading: Poetry Edition

"You know that I hate end-of-year lists..."

By Rabih Alameddine | December 17, 2020

Hope on the Horizon: Charles Baxter and Mike Alberti on Despair and Renewal in Fiction

Hope on the Horizon: Charles Baxter and Mike Alberti on Despair and Renewal in Fiction

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell
on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 17, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Pelican Child: Stories
  • Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
  • The Ferryman and His Wife
  • Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

Casey Plett: What Does It
Mean to Belong?

By Literary Hub | December 17, 2020

The Austrian Writer Whose Forgotten Plays Inspired His Greatest Work of Fiction

By Genese Grill | December 17, 2020

Danielle Evans on Writing the Subterranean Story

By WMFA | December 17, 2020

Jess Walter on the Challenge of the Contemporary Novelist (Well, One of Them Anyway)

Jess Walter on the Challenge of the Contemporary Novelist (Well, One of Them Anyway)

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | December 17, 2020

Harryette Mullen on Finding Her Poems as She Walks Through Los Angeles

Harryette Mullen on Finding Her Poems as She Walks Through Los Angeles

In Conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | December 17, 2020

On the Fringes of Bogotá: A Reading Unlike Any Other

On the Fringes of Bogotá: A Reading Unlike Any Other

Eduardo Halfon Takes Questions (and Comments) From a
Group of "Throwaways"

By Eduardo Halfon | December 16, 2020

Giving Up Capitalism Doesn't Mean Giving Up Pleasure

Giving Up Capitalism Doesn't Mean Giving Up Pleasure

Kate Soper Talks to Kate Aronoff About an "Alternative Hedonism"

By Kate Aronoff | December 16, 2020

Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf's Writings About Illness<br> and Disability

Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf's Writings About Illness
and Disability

Gabrielle Bellot Explores the Complexity of Detailing Sickness in the Age of COVID

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 16, 2020

Larry Watson Talks Film Adaptations, the Modern Western, and Writerly Superstition

Larry Watson Talks Film Adaptations, the Modern Western, and Writerly Superstition

A Conversation with the Author of Let Him Go

By Literary Hub | December 16, 2020

H.M. Naqvi: My Covid Year<br> in Reading

H.M. Naqvi: My Covid Year
in Reading

Finding Comfort in a World of Books

By H.M. Naqvi | December 16, 2020

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