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3 weeks ago | 
theinnercitynews.com | Boris Fishman |Paul Bass
by Paul BassThe UnwantedBy Boris FishmanHarper330 pagesI forgot to laugh when I read Boris Fishman’s new novel about a family escaping civil war and totalitarianism. Throughout The Unwanted, I read about a mother selling her body in exchange for her daughter’s escape to freedom. I held my breath as a family paid the last of their savings to bribe their way onto a boat headed out of a civil war and into a refugee camp. I wiped tears from my eyes — but they weren’t tears of laughter.
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1 month ago | 
entertainment-mag.com | Boris Fishman
THE UNWANTED, by Boris FishmanBoris Fishman’s third novel, “The Unwanted,” begins with an ending. Its protagonists, a “minority-sect” family living in an unnamed autocracy riven by civil war, have just learned that they have to leave the country.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Boris Fishman
THE UNWANTED, by Boris FishmanBoris Fishman's third novel, "The Unwanted," begins with an ending. Its protagonists, a "minority-sect" family living in an unnamed autocracy riven by civil war, have just learned that they have to leave the country.
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1 month ago | 
thefp.com | Boris Fishman
I’m a Liberal at a ‘Conservative’ University. How Did I End Up Here? My students at UATX know they can disagree passionately with their classmates—a more meaningful definition of ‘safe space’ than what I encountered teaching in the Ivy League. The University of Austin was first announced in these pages by its president in November 2021. “We are done waiting. We are done waiting for the legacy universities to right themselves.
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1 month ago | 
open.substack.com | Boris Fishman
The University of Austin was first announced in these pages by its president in November 2021. “We are done waiting. We are done waiting for the legacy universities to right themselves. And so we are building anew,” wrote Pano Kanelos explaining why he, along with a small group that I am a part of, were starting a new university in a country full of them. It took three years to turn an idea into reality. Boris Fishman is among the professors teaching the inaugural class.
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2 months ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Kate Folk |Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |Stuart Nadler |Boris Fishman
Kate Folk. Random House, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-23149-4Folk (Out There, a story collection) fuses Moby-Dick with J.G. Ballard’s Crash for a blistering debut novel about a woman’s sexual and mortal obsession with airplanes. “Call me Linda,” begins the narrator, who rides the AirTrain around San Francisco’s airport to lust after fuselage and marvel at wingspans when she’s not busy toiling as a content moderator for a social media platform.
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2 months ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Pedro Almodóvar |Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |Stuart Nadler |Boris Fishman
Anthony Passeron, trans. from the French by Frank Wynne. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-61226-9In Passeron’s beautiful and sorrowful debut autofiction, he attempts to end his family’s silence over a relative’s death from AIDS decades earlier. Passeron grew up rarely hearing the name of his father’s brother Désiré, who died a few years after Passeron was born. Now, after his paternal grandparents have died, he seeks to recover Désiré’s story.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jonathan Coe |Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |Stuart Nadler |Boris Fishman
Jonathan Coe. Europa, $18 trade paper (368p) ISBN 979-8-88966-091-0Coe’s delectable whodunit (after Bournville) combines shadowy right-wing politics and literary intrigue. It’s 2022 and British magazine editor Christopher Swann is on the verge of exposing a right-wing think tank’s plot against the National Health Service. After conservative prime minister Liz Truss is sworn in, the think tank holds a conference in an English country house, which Swann attends.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Boris Fishman
At a benefit concert for Ukrainian children, at Carnegie Hall, Nathalie Lysenko and Gayle Corrigan walked up to the bar and paid forty-six dollars for two glasses of a Ukrainian sparkling wine that Lysenko had helped smuggle out of Bakhmut under Russian bombardment. “I didn’t realize they were charging for it,” Corrigan said. Lysenko, who is tall and has large, round eyes, is the export manager for Artwinery, which until recently was one of the largest wineries in the former Soviet Union.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
tabletmag.com | Boris Fishman
1. The BetsyJonathan Plutzik was late to our first interview because he was switching dogs. With his wife Lesley Goldwasser, Plutzik owns the Betsy Hotel on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach. The Betsy is an unusual hotel. Ocean Drive can be loud and showy; the Betsy is refined and discreet. The hotels on South Beach are mostly Art Deco; the Betsy has a portico-studded colonial style formally known as Florida-Georgian.
