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2 months ago | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Susan Harris |Marco Avilés |Ezzedine Fishere |Yuri Herrera
November 2017 Image: Saba Farhoudnia, Chasing Dreams, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 24 inches. Courtesy of the artist. This month, we present work by international writers living in the US and writing in languages other than English. The eleven writers here expand both our sense of literary creativity and our understanding of life within, and without, the boundaries of this country. Marco Avilés considers immigration and privilege.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Louise Erdrich |Louise Penny |Marcie R. Rendon |Yuri Herrera
The Mighty Red, by Louise ErdrichFrom the masterful Louise Erdrich comes the story of a North Dakota farming community whipsawed by crises. At the book’s center is Kismet, a high school graduate who gets pulled into a questionable marriage, and her truck-driving, devoted mother. The tale’s many threads pull together into a rewarding portrait of renewal and honesty.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Yuri Herrera
Early on in Yuri Herrera’s Season of the Swamp, a man stares at an old plantation house. It is 1853 in New Orleans, so the home is not that old, but it is no longer a plantation. There’s a new sign on it labeling it an orphan asylum.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Yuri Herrera
SEASON OF THE SWAMP, by Yuri Herrera; translated by Lisa DillmanAmong the tragic heroes and comic villains who fill the pantheon of Mexican history, few command more solemn respect than Benito Juárez, who in the mid-19th century rose from destitute origins to become his country's first Indigenous president.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Yuri Herrera
BookBrowse Review BookBrowse Benito allows himself to be drawn into the chaos of New Orleans and the lives of the people he meets... A major theme of the novel is the failure or refusal to acknowledge the harm that one perpetrates; this is seen not only in Benito but in minor characters as well, such as the slave trader who insists that, as only the middleman, he is not responsible for the suffering he causes.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Chuck Palahniuk |Alejandro Puyana |Yuri Herrera |Navid Sinaki
Chuck Palahniuk. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-6680-2144-6In the latest bracing satire from Palahniuk (Fight Club), a wave of high school suicides roils the country. The narrative centers on Samantha Deel, a brilliant and resourceful teenager who’s hit hard by the suicide of her boyfriend, Garson. When her excellent academic record attracts the notice of an organization called Greener Pastures, she agrees to enter its mysterious program.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
electricliterature.com | Mariana Enríquez |Junji Ito |Silvia Moreno-Garcia |Yuri Herrera
Reading Lists Samsun Knight, author of "The Diver," recommends books about characters who use occult rituals to explore the dark underbelly of our society Modernity has always been profoundly unsettling. Living in an ever-changing world means that no one really knows how to be a human on any given day, and we all have to feel our way forward in the dark. But that’s precisely why the horror genre exists: to explore that darkness’ farthest edges with us. Through the fear and discomfort of...
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Jun 5, 2023 | 
cbc.ca | Yuri Herrera
Ideas53:59Mexico's Gothic TurnHorror and noir stories are taking off in the Mexican literary world, and they come with a twist — setting them amid the recent violence plaguing the country. "The figure of the monster always emerges in literature when things in society are bumpy," said recent University of Toronto PhD graduate Alejandro Soifer.
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Apr 7, 2023 | 
shelf-awareness.com | Jane Roper |Yuri Herrera |Susanna Hoffs
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy by Quinn SlobodianA mantra of post-Cold War globalization has it that the world is shrinking, but Quinn Slobodian (), author and professor of the history of ideas at Wellesley College, posits in that a veneer of increased interconnectedness masks the emergence of micropolities that have fractured the global political and economic system.
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Mar 30, 2023 | 
elpais.com | Yuri Herrera
EL PAÍS adelanta un fragmento de La estación del pantano (editorial Periférica), la novela más reciente de Yuri Herrera. En el nuevo libro, el escritor mexicano recrea el exilio del expresidente Benito Juárez en Nueva Orleans, una etapa en la vida del político que se conoce poco. La obra, publicada primero en España, ya está disponible en México.
