Review Index 2025

The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm (Austria/German, tr. by Alexander Booth)

The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson (Iceland, tr. Phillip Roughton)

Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson (Iceland, tr. Phillip Roughton)

The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola (Slovak, tr. by Julia and Peter Sherwood)

Light, Grass, and Letter in April by Inger Christensen (Danish, tr. Susanna Nied)

Call Me Stratos by Chrysoula Georgoula (Greece, tr. by Marianna Avouri)

Love Letter in Cuneiform by Tomáš Zmeškal (Czech, tr. by Alex Zucker)

Diving Board by Tomás Downey (Argentina/Spanish, tr. by Sarah Moses)

War Primer by Alexander Kluge (German, tr. by Alexander Booth)

The Hairdresser’s Son by Gerhard Bakker (Dutch, tr. by David Colmer)

The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen (Danish, tr. by Tiina Nunnally)

The Painted Room by Inger Christensen (Danish, tr. by Denise Newman)

No One Knows Their Blood Type by Maya Abu-Hayyat (Palestine/Arabic, tr. by Hazem Jamjoum)

The Minotaur’s Daughter by Eva Luka (Slovakia, tr. by James Sutherland-Smith)

We Live Here Now by C. D. Rose (UK)

The Emperor by Mackenzy Orcel (Haiti/French, tr. by Nathan H. Dize)

Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben (UK)

“it by Inger Christensen (Danish, tr. by Susanna Nied)

The Limit by Rosalind Belben (UK)

Earthrise Stories: Pasts Potentials Prophesies by Priya Sarukkai Chabria (India)

Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová (Czech, tr. by Tereza Veverka Novická)

Natalja’s Stories by Inger Christensen (Danish, tr. by Denise Newman)

My Kingdom is Dying by Evald Flisar (Slovenia, tr. by David Limon)

The Dissenters by Youssef Rakha (Egypt)

Self-Portrait in the Studio by Giorgio Agamben (Italian, tr. by Kevin Attell)

Border Documents by Arturo Soto (Mexico)

Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea by C. D. Rose (UK)

Butterfly Valley by Inger Christensen (Danish, tr. by Susanna Nied)

Psyche Running: Selected Poems, 2005–2022 by Durs Grünbein (German, tr. by Karen Leeder)

arabic, between love and war  edited by Yasmine Haj and Norah Alkharashi (Arabic, various poets and translators)

The Harmattan Winds by Sylvain Trudel (French-Canadian, tr. by Donald Winkler)

Azorno by Inger Christensen (Danish, tr. Denise Newman)

Recognizing the Stranger by Isabella Hammad (British Palestinian)

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar Al Akkad (Egyptian-Canadian/American)

Near Distance by Hanna Stotenberg (Norwegian, tr. by Wendy H. Gabrielsen)

Nevermore by Cécile Wajsbrot (French, tr. by Tess Lewis)

Seeing Further by Esther Kinsky (German, tr. by Caroline Schmidt)

alphabet by Inger Christensen (Danish, tr. by Susanna Nied)

Return to My Native Land by Aimé Césaire (Martinique/French, tr. by Jason Allen-Paisant)

Children of the Ghetto II: Star of the Sea by Elias Khoury (Lebanese/Arabic, tr. Humphrey Davies)

Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons edited by Zuo Fei, Xiao Yue Shan and Simon Shieh (Chinese, various writers and translators)

Of Desire and Decarceration by Charline Lambert (Belgian/French, tr. John Taylor)

The Condition of Secrecy by Inger Christensen (Danish, tr. by Susanna Nied)

Sojourn by Amit Chaudhuri (India/UK)