Check in every Monday for our weekly list—ten handpicked articles from newspapers and literary magazines across the world.
Gold
A moving short story about finding acceptance for who we are in the people who are our own by Eloghosa Osunde, whose debut work of fiction, VAGABONDS!, is out next year.
We Are Built to Forget
Meredith Hall, the author the novel, Beneficence, writes a winding piece composed of vignettes about constructing our sense of self by constantly reshaping our past through our memory.
When the Protagonist Is a Literal Man-Eater
Josephine Livingstone reviews Summer's debut novel about an extraordinary food critic whose favourite meal is a deceased and digested boyfriend.
Humanity at night
Fine discusses how culture is a recurring theme in a set of six autobiographical writings based out of the Holocaust.
Holding Up the Sky
Composed by Rod Mason and annotated by Charles Massy, Holding Up the Sky is a timely reminder that the knowledge of the indigenous people across the world--Mason is of the Wolgal-Bemmergal clan in Australia--is crucial in the fight against climate change.
“Tales of the Narts: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians”, edited by John Colarusso and Tamirlan Salbiev
David Chaffetz, the author of Three Asian Divas, reviews an anthology of Ossentian tales, translated into English, from the Russian translation, by Walter May.
The Language Police Were Terrifyingly Real. My Grandfather Was One.
Martin Puchner, author of The Language of Thieves, demonstrates how criminalization of a marginalized community encompasses contempt of its language, using the example of Rotwelsch, a language spoken in Central Europe.
7 Highly-Anticipated Books to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Feminist Press
The list of upcoming titles include The Echoing Ida Collection edited by Cynthia R. Greenlee, Kemi Alabi, and Janna A. Zinzi as well as I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement by Jessica Zucker.
The mysterious appeal of a labyrinth
Beginning with C. S. Lewis' Narnia series and Jorge Luis Borges' short stories, Laux traces out the literary tradition of labyrinthine writing--to which Susanna Clarke's recent novel Piranesi is the latest addition.
A Fuller Picture of Human Personality: Iris Murdoch on How Art Helps Us Reimagine Freedom, Moral Life, and Our Inner Worlds
Peruse excerpts from the twentieth century philosopher-novelist's posthumous collection, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature.
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