Archive - Ex Libris

Too Many Thoughts on Mariana Enriquez's Our Share of Night

Feb 13 •

January 2024

Finding Patterns

Writers’ Gimmicks & Readers’ Expectations

Jan 4 •

August 2023

Strange Neighbors

People From My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Ted Goossen. Exteriors by Annie Ernaux, translated by Tanya Leslie.

Aug 3, 2023 •

July 2023

Summer & Shamanism: South Korean Literature, The Nobel Prize & Soft Power-Flexes

This year the desire for it to be Fall is a bit more intense than usual, probably because this Summer has been more intense than usual. I won’t bore you…

Jul 31, 2023 •

August 2021

Scholastique Mukasonga

For #WITMonth, a throwback review -- Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Jordan Stump. Archipelago Books, New York, 2016.

Aug 6, 2021 •

July 2021

It's the little things that citizens do...*

That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees." -- Wangari Maathai, Nobel Laureate. This week I wrote about Wilding: Returning…

Jul 29, 2021 •

Welcome to Kappaland!

I write about Kappa, the 1927 novella by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Translated by Geoffrey Bownas. London & Chicago: Peter Owen, 2016.

Jul 1, 2021 •

June 2021

Garbage & Rat Guts

This week in Ex Libris: City of Ash and Red by Hye-Young Pyun. Translated by Sora Kim-Russell.

Jun 24, 2021 •

Women On Exhibit

This week I write about Exposition, Suite for Barbara Loden & The White Dress by Nathalie Léger. St. Louis, Missouri: Dorothy, A Publishing Project…

Jun 16, 2021 •

"Just because you're paranoid...

This week I review a novel about another country's conspiracy theories. Juan Gabriel Vásquez's The Shape of the Ruins, translated by Anne McLean.

Jun 9, 2021 •

Nancy. Bruno Lloret, translated by Ellen Jones. San Francisco, California: Two Lines Press, 2021. 156 pages. $19.95

Jun 2, 2021 •

May 2021

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May 30, 2021 •

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