First generation immigrants navigate their striated society in Shida Bazyar’s pointed novel "Sisters in Arms". Saya, Kasih, and Hani grew up in metropolitan Germany, bound by... Read More

Nino Haratischvili’s multigenerational Georgian novel "The Eighth Life" spans the years between the Bolshevik Revolution and the early twenty-first century. It all begins with... Read More

Interwoven with the stark realism of the novel are hints of a fairy tale. Simultaneously bleak and hopeful, Michael Köhlmeier’s "Yiza" traverses the expansive landscape of... Read More

This affecting, dimensional work centers on the power gained by losing oneself in the mythology of others. Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill: Englishmen, twentieth-century... Read More