#book review
5 descobertas · Descobertas escolhidas da web aberta, das mais recentes às mais antigas.
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Guadalupe Rosales’s Portable Archive of East LA
In two new books, the artist weaves her archive of photos, ephemera, and flyers into the story of ’90s Chicanx youth culture, tracing both a personal and collective coming-of-age.
Hyperallergic · EN
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Exodus: The Helium Sea
Peter F. Hamilton’s Exodus: The Helium Sea is the second part of a duology that began with Exodus: The Archimedes Engine. It continues the story of humans trying to survive in a star cluster dominated by numerous posthuman species known as Celestials. The Celestials are descendants of the first settlers in the cluster, who arrived … Continue reading Exodus: The Helium Sea →
SelfAwarePatterns · EN
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Book of the month: Jeyamohan
If you’ve never heard of Jeyamohan, I wouldn’t be surprised. Until recently, his work wasn’t widely available in English outside India. That is starting to change: next month Hachette in the UK (and FSG Originals in the US) is bringing out his novel White Elephant, translated from the Tamil by Priyamvada Ramkumar. This was the […]
A year of reading the world · EN
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Book of the month: Ryan Falzon
As the heatwaves rippled across Europe, one summer novel held me gripped. It comes from Foundry Editions, an indie publisher set up in 2023 to champion literature from around the Mediterranean and notable, like fellow leading internationalist houses Fitzcarraldo and And Other Stories, for their distinctive covers (in this case designed to capture the visual […]
A year of reading the world · EN
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Book of the month: Lana Abdelrahman
This Women in Translation month, I’m featuring a collection of short stories by the Lebanese writer and critic Lana Abdelrahman. I had the pleasure of meeting and sharing a stage with Abdelrahman at the Dibrugarh University International Literature Festival in Assam, India, earlier this year. When we said goodbye, she generously pressed a copy of […]
A year of reading the world · EN