Book Reviews

In Iman Mersal's Traces of Enayat, the poet and scholar blends biography, memoir, and literary criticism to recover the story of forgotten Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat Read more »

In Khashayar J. Khabushani's debut, a young boy navigates a queer coming-of-age against the backdrop of pre-9/11 America and post-revolution Iran Read more »

Lex Croucher's new queer Regency rom-com continues to break the rules of both propriety and gender norms Read more »

An investigation into the limits of narrative, Claudia Piñeiro's latest cements the writer as a giant of Argentine literature Read more »

You, Bleeding Childhood is the first English translation of Italian novelist Michele Mari, and a love letter to a childhood told through literature Read more »

Shoji Morimoto's unique memoir tracks the author's life as he refuses work and rents himself out as a passive companion Read more »