Book Reviews

The Shadeless Border Gives Voice to Iran’s Kurdish Borderland

The Shadeless Border Gives Voice to Iran’s Kurdish Borderland

This debut novel centers an oft-overlooked region between Iran and Iraq but is slowed by its didactic impulses.

25 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Matt Broomfield
Becoming Free Behind Bars: A Review of Huna

Becoming Free Behind Bars: A Review of Huna

Gripping, heartbreaking, and resolute, this debut memoir affirms the human intellect as a site of resistance.

11 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Yasmine El Rashidi
Birhan Keskin’s Earthly Conditions: Godless Sufism?

Birhan Keskin’s Earthly Conditions: Godless Sufism?

A poetry collection by a transformative Turkish voice explores questions of gender, queer desire, memory, and belonging.

31 JULY 2026 • By Efe Murad
Memory and Forgetting in Of Loss and Lavender

Memory and Forgetting in Of Loss and Lavender

Sinan Antoon’s self-translated novel explores the different ways memory unfolds in exile but offers no closure.

31 JULY 2026 • By Saleem Haddad
The Real Serpent in Daniyal Mueenuddin’s Novel

The Real Serpent in Daniyal Mueenuddin’s Novel

The true "serpent" of this novel, set against the shifting social landscape of contemporary Pakistan, may be its...

24 JULY 2026 • By Farah Ahamed
Ungrounding: A History of Genocide Written into the Soil

Ungrounding: A History of Genocide Written into the Soil

A new book catalogues the architecture of Israeli military violence and displacement that have made Gaza unliveable.

17 JULY 2026 • By Selma Dabbagh
Grief and Hope in the Poetry of Dissonance

Grief and Hope in the Poetry of Dissonance

Aida Zilelian’s first chapbook traces the survival of a people, but also reminds the reader of other genocides,...

5 JUNE 2026 • By Sean Casey
From New York to Abu Dhabi: Taking Leave

From New York to Abu Dhabi: Taking Leave

A writer's journeys, spiritual and physical, lead to a winding exploration of how to live beyond religious strictures...

22 MAY 2026 • By Sheana Ochoa
The Hollow Half  Maps the Distance Between Body and Home

The Hollow Half Maps the Distance Between Body and Home

A prize-winning memoir brings alive three generations of diasporic Palestinians, from Gaza to New York City and back.

22 MAY 2026 • By N.S. Ahmed
A Fanonian reading of Mohammed Hanif’s Rebel English Academy

A Fanonian reading of Mohammed Hanif’s Rebel English Academy

A dark political satire draws heavily on Fanon's writing but shifts the focus from abstract revolution to lived...

22 MAY 2026 • By Farah Ahamed
Bassem Khandaqji’s Mask is a novel of Palestinian Resistance

Bassem Khandaqji’s Mask is a novel of Palestinian Resistance

The ghostly presence of the Nakba casts an ominous shadow over this newly translated novel by a former...

15 MAY 2026 • By Francesca Vawdrey
Will Israel Move From Apartheid to Democracy?

Will Israel Move From Apartheid to Democracy?

Sarah Leah Whitson and Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man offer an idealistic framework to break the stalemate in Palestine.

17 APRIL 2026 • By Mya Guarnieri
 
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