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The third in a series of reading lists to celebrate Women in Translation Month, which is observed in August every year.

Books examining the Black artistic experience and those exploring art and architecture’s relationship to nature figure prominently in this season’s offerings.

Book Reviews Reviewed by Damara Atrigol Pratt "Moon Brow", by Shahriar Mandanipour, recounts the recent history of Iran through a fragmented narrative structure that emulates the disjointed remembrances of trauma. While the political facets of its story report the grim consequences of the Iranian Revolution, the physical and emotional world described in the novel is alive with vivid and provocative encounters. The book offers beauty while confronting the ugliness of revolution, oppression, and ...

Book Reviews July 2019 Reviewed by David Frier A new anthology collects a wide range of writing inspired by the Portuguese city, from Fernando Pessoa and José Saramago to authors from former colonies like Kalaf Angelo and Orlanda Amarílis, but it leaves out some key short-story writers. Reviewed by Craig Epplin The Spanish author and Man Booker International nominee elides the distance between novel and memoir in a book that confronts the killing of her grandfather by the ETA and her mothers ...

Bethanne Patrick Recommends Some Under-the-Radar Must-Reads December 29, 2020 Everyone else has published their year-end lists of The Best, Our Favorites, Top 10, and so forth (that includes me individually and Lit Hub editorially, too). Why shouldn’t we gather the Best from 2020’s Books You May Have Missed? Choosing from the fifty-odd titles means that these ten are really the cream of a much bigger crop. A few have already gathered awards ( High as the Waters Rise, Alligator), a few rema...