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Lo Stadio di Wimbledon by Daniele Del Giudice

Reviewed by Anne Milano Appel

Why would a man firmly rooted in the literary world of his time never write a word of his own? This is the question Daniele Del Giudice鈥檚 debut novel Lo stadio di Wimbledon sets out to answer.

Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

Reviewed by Elizabeth B. Jones

Diary of a Young Naturalist brims with curiosity, heartache, and joy. Over the course of a year, Irish teenager and climate activist Dara McAnulty chronicles how the natural world both cushions him from the pains of early adulthood (he turns fifteen) and feeds his determination to protect it for future generations

The Inheritance by Elizabeth Povinelli

Reviewed by Caroline DeVane

Povinelli situates family stories about place and blood told to her by her grandparents within the broader social narratives of European immigration to the US.

Bees of the Invisible by Maximiliane Donicht

Reviewed by Shoshana Akabas

One hundred years later, German-born poet Maximiliane Donicht picks up where Rilke left off, weaving her own expressive, elegiac verses.聽I聽balance on the聽bottleneck of being.

Boys Quarter by Chukwuma Ndulue

Reviewed by Naomi Falk

Ndulue directs the mind away from imagining stereotypes of times and places and coaxes it towards a sustained patience with language, one that melts the text into the reader.

A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen by Morten H酶i Jensen

Reviewed by Marianne Stecher

It is Jensen鈥檚 crisp and concise writing and wit, which distinguish his marvelous contextualization of the intellectual, cultural, and social worlds in which Jens Peter Jacobsen moved and breathed. Jensen draws vivid portraits of the nineteenth-century literary contemporaries of Jacobsen 鈥 so that they spring from the pages.

Adua by Igiaba Scego

Reviewed by Yasmin Roshanian

Adua dreams of a place where the taboos surrounding sex, romantic idealism, and uninhibited aesthetic pleasures are not censored or damned.

The Outlaw by J贸n Gnarr, translated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith

Reviewed by 碍.罢.听叠颈濒濒别测

Translated by Lytton Smith, the third and final volume in Gnarr鈥檚 autobiographical trilogy is a glimpse into a sensitive, often miserable teenage mind. Devastating candor pulls the reader into the emotional whirlpool of a young thinker as he grapples with normalcy, loneliness, his own limitations, and life鈥檚 unexpected possibilities.

Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo

Reviewed by聽Theophilus Kwek

Throughout the nineteenth century, as the British Empire and its official tongue extended across the world, the word 鈥渆xpatriate,鈥 which, as late as 1818 referred to 鈥渙ne who has been banished,鈥 acquired a new definition: 鈥渙ne who chooses to live abroad.鈥

Prosopopoeia by Farid Tali

Reviewed by聽Poupeh Missaghi

Farid Tali鈥檚 Prosopopoeia is a gorgeous memorial for a lost loved one, from one brother to another, from one man who finds beauty and love in the arms of another man.