Review Index 2022

Marina Tsvetaeva: To Die in Yelabuga by Vénus Khoury-Ghata (Lebanese-French, tr. by Teresa Lavender Fagan)

Leaving: A Poem from the Time of the Virus by Cees Nooteboom (Dutch, tr. by David Colmer)

May by Karel Hynek Mácha (Czech, tr.  by Marcela Malek Sulak)

Ever Since I Did Not Die by Ramy Al-Asheq (Syrian-Palestinian/Arabic) translated by Isis Nusair

Love by Tomas Espedal (Norwegian, tr. by James Anderson)

Seriously Well by Helge Torvund (Norwegian, tr. by the poet)

Yes by Thomas Bernhard (Austria/German, tr. by Ewald Osers)

Ulysses: after James Joyce by Nicolas Mahler,  (Austria/German, tr. by Alexander Booth)

The Sea in the Radio: Journal Sentences by Jürgen Becker (German, tr. Alexander Booth)

Grove by Esther Kinsky (German, tr. by Caroline Schmidt)

Requiem for Ernst Jandl by Friederike Mayröcker (Austria/German, tr. by Roslyn Theobald)

Ore Choir: The Lava on Iceland by Katy Didden with Illustrations by Kevin Tseng

The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic through Photography, Performance and Public Culture by Rustom Bharucha (India)

You’ll Like It Here by Ashton Politanoff (USA)

Postcard from London by Iván Mándy (Hungarian, tr. by John Batki)

Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude by Khal Torabully (Mauritius/French, tr. by Nancy Naomi Carlson)

Tractatus by Róbert Gál (Slovak, tr. by David Short)

Nekhau by Rico Craig (Australia)

Shadow of Things to Come by Kossi Efoui (Togo/French, tr. Chris Turner)

Rosa’s Very Own Personal Revolution by Eric Dupont (French Canadian, tr. by Peter McCambridge)

No Windmills in Basra by Diaa Jubaili (Iraq/Arabic, tr. by Chip Rossetti)

Disembodied by Christina Tudor-Sideri (Romania/English)

Mother of 1084 by Mahasweta Devi (India/Bengali, tr. by Samik Bandyopadhyay)

Ti Amo by Hanne Ørstavik (Norwegian, tr. by Martin Aitken)

Trás-os-Montes by José-Flore Tappy (Swiss/French, tr. by John Taylor)

Blood Feast by Malika Moustadraf (Arabic, tr. by Alice Guthrie)

Monsters Like Us by Ulrike Almut Sandig (German, tr. by Karen Leeder)

The Shehnai Virtuoso by Dhumketu (India/Gujarati, tr. by Jenny Bhatt)

The Tomb Guardians by Paul Griffiths (UK)

The Butterfly Cemetery by Franca Mancinelli (Italian, tr. by John Taylor)

City of Torment / Prague, I See a City… by Daniela Hodrová (Czech—see review for translators)

Another Gulmohar Tree by Aamer Hussein (British-Pakistani)

Love and Reparation by Danish Sheikh (India)

This Body I Wore by Diana Goetsch (US)

My Life in Trans Activism by A. Revathi (India/Tamil as told to Nandini Murali)

The Beloved of the Dawn by Franz Fühmann (German, tr. by Isabel Fargo Cole)

Chéri and The End of Chéri by Colette (French, tr. Rachel Careau)

Rabelais’s Doughnuts by Pierre Senges (French, tr. by Jacob Siefring)

the adventures of char, vol #1 by Whiskey Radish (US)

Canzone Di Guerra by Daša Drndić (Croatian, tr. by Celia Hawkesworth)

My Jewel Box by Ursula Andkjær Olsen (Danish, tr. by Katrine Øgaard Jensen)

distant transit by Maja Haderlap (Austria/German, tr. by Tess Lewis)

Ghost Variations by John Brian King (US)

Knotted Grief by Naveen Kishore (India)

Seeing Red by Lina Meruane (Chile/Spanish, tr. by Megan McDowell)

The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion by Akram Musallam (Palestine/Arabic, tr. by Sawad  Hussain)

A Certain Logic of Expectations by Arturo Soto (Mexico)

in field latin by Lutz Seiler (German, tr. by Alexander Booth)

Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (India/Hindi, tr. by Daisy Rockwell)

Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets (Ukraine/writing in Russian, tr. Eugene Ostashevsky)

Men in My Situation by Per Petterson (Norwegian, tr. by Ingvild Burkey)

Everything Like Before by Kjell Askildsen (Norwegian, tr. Sean Kinsella)

Modern Animal by Yevgenia Belorusets (Ukraine/writing in Russian, tr. by Bela Shayevich)

Dream Pattering Soles by Miguelángel Meza (Guaraní & Spanish, tr. by Elisa Taber)

Winter Stories by Ingvild H. Roshøi (Norwegian, tr. by Diane Oatley)

Triptych by Alexander Booth (US/Berlin)

The White Bathing Hut Thorvald Steen (Norwegian, tr. by James Anderson)

In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin (France, tr. by Sophie R Lewis)

Small Talk by Stephan Delbos (US)

Losing Touch by Magda Kappa (Greek, writing in English)

The Pastor by Hanne Orstavik (Norwegian, tr. by Martin Aitken)

Ponge, Pastures, Prairies by Philippe Jaccottet (Swiss/French, tr. by John Taylor)

The Year: A Novel by Tomas Espedal (Norwegian, tr. by  James Anderson)

Responses · Kafka’s Prague by Jiří Kolář (Czech, tr. by Ryan Scott)