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Review: A Storm Blew in from Paradise by Johannes Anuryu

July 6, 2020

Nandini Bhattacharya

(New York: World Editions, 2019) One can be forgiven for approaching Johannes Anyuru’s novel A Storm Blew in from Paradise as “refugee” writing or diasporic fiction. It is not, though. A Storm Blew in From Paradise is about the “still, … Continued

Review: The Helios Disaster by Linda Boström Knausgård

May 4, 2020

Forrest Roth

Translated from Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles (New York: World Editions, 2020) The Greek goddess Athena, born directly of a father into adulthood and having no mother, has never been a compromised figure displaying a lack of resolve or shying away … Continued

Review: The Museum of Lost Love by Gary Barker

February 24, 2020

Trevor Payne

(New York: World Editions, 2019) Full disclosure: if you’re an MFA grad, like me, whose novelist credentials involve the unfortunate words self-published, you have to be demure, especially in certain artsy epicenters — Austin, Brooklyn, San Francisco, Reykjavik — if … Continued

A Review of A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig

May 6, 2019

Lisa Grgas

Translated from Italian by Anne Milano Appel (New York/London/Amsterdam: World Editions, 2019) In his recent essay, “The Contemporary American Novella and its (Dis)Contents,” John Keene makes an interesting point about publishing fiction: despite evidence that social media has contributed to … Continued

A Review of You Have Me to Love by Jaap Robben

December 10, 2018

Elizabeth Jaeger

Translated from Dutch by David Doherty (New York: World Editions, 2018) I’ve often dreamed about living alone on an island, or, if not alone, with a few other people. Think of it: the quiet, the solitude, the lack of distraction. … Continued

A Review of Thirty Days by Annelies Verbeke

November 26, 2018

Gretchen McCullough

Translated from Dutch by Liz Waters (New York, NY: World Editions, 2018) In March 2003, thousands of protestors swelled into Tahrir Square, enraged over America’s incursion into Iraq. I was looking out the window of my office at the American … Continued

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