Review Index 2021

Alphabets of Sand by Vénus Khoury-Ghatta (Lebanon/French, tr. by Marilyn Hacker)

Twelve Nights by Urs Faes (Switzerland/German, tr. by Jamie Lee Searle)

Slipping by Mohamed Kheir (Egypt/Arabic, tr. by Robin Moger)

Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country by Cristina Rivera Garza (Mexico/Spanish, tr. by Sarah Booker)

A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving by Katie Farris (US)

Special Needs by Lada Vukić (Croatia, tr. by Christina Pribichevich-Zorić)

All the Roads Are Open by Annemarie Schwarzenbach (Swiss/German, tr. by Isabel Fargo Cole)

The Desert of Lop by Raoul Schrott (Austria/German, tr. by Karen Leeder)

Anecdotes by Heinrich von Kleist (Germany, tr. by Matthew Spencer)

The Interim by Wolfgang Hilbig (Germany, tr. by Isabel Fargo Cole)

Wolves and Other Stories by Bhuwaneshar (India/Hindi, tr. by Saudamini Deo)

Sing of Life: Revisioning Tagore’s Gitanjali by Priya Sarukkai Chabria (India/English)

Sandfuture by Justin Beal (US)

Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful by Rohan Chhetri (Nepali-Indian/English)

To See Out the Night by David Clerson (Canada/French, tr. by Katia Grubisic)

The Last Days of Mandelstam by Vénus Khoury-Ghata (Lebanon/French, tr. by Teresa Lavender Fagan)

Acrobat by Nabaneeta Dev Sen (India/Bangla tr. by Nandana Dev Sen)

Aphasia by Mauro Javier Cárdenas (US)

If You Kept a Record of Sins by Andrea Bajani (Italy, tr. by Elizabeth Harris)

Letters in Language by Harold Legaspi (Australia)

Out of Line and Offline: Queer Mobilizations in 90s Eastern India by Pawan Dhall (India)

The Promise by Damon Galgut (South Africa)

The Book of Sleep by Haytham El Wardany (Egypt/Arabic, tr. by Robin Moger)

Nancy by Bruno Lloret (Chile/Spanish, tr. by Ellen Jones)

The Town Slowly Empties: On Life and Culture During Lockdown by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee. (India)

The Cheap Eaters by Thomas Bernhard (Austria/German, tr. by Douglas Robertson)

Outgoing Vessel by Ursula Andkjær Olsen (Denmark, tr. by Katrine Ogaard Jensen)

The Divine Song by Abdourahman A. Waberi (Djibouti/French, tr. by David and Nicole Ball)

Open Your Eyes: An Anthology on Climate Change ed. by Vinita  Agrawal (India & international)

Purple Perilla by Can Xue (China, tr. by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping)

The Fig Tree by Goran Vojnović (Slovenia, tr. by Olivia Hellewell)

Documentary in Dispute: The Original Manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland by Sarah M. Miller (US)

Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City by Durs Grünbein (Germany, tr. by Karen Leeder)