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February 22, 2022
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Arma Virumque: Pollak's Arm in the Wall Street Journal
Hans von Trotha's novel Pollak's Arm, trans. Elisabeth Lauffer, was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal on February 11. “Nazi forces bear down on a Jewish scholar in Rome in Hans von Trotha’s erudite novel,” wrote critic Sam Sacks, praising it as a “tense yet enthralling” fictional account of the real-life archeologist who discovered a missing arm of the Vatican's famous Laocoön sculpture in 1906.
On the Seawall also reviewed the “tender” Pollak's Arm on February 15, describing it as “a poignant ode to storytelling, bearing witness to historical memory from the Trojan War to World War II.” The book previously received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews.
Pollak's Arm
by Hans von Trotha, trans. Elisabeth Lauffer
New Vessel Press • February 2022 • 9781954404007
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| | The Partition
by Don Lee
Akashic Books • April 2022 • 9781636140315
★ “Familiar joy is immediate as one reenters Lee’s signature worlds of brilliant resonance and quiet depth. In his first short story collection since his lauded Yellow debut, Lee again questions identity, unlikely relationships, and fleeting connections.”—Booklist
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| | When Women Kill
by Alia Trabucco Zerán, trans. Sophie Hughes
Coffee House Press • April 2022 • 9781566896337
★ “Precise and evocative. . . . Rather than further sensationalizing these crimes, the author uses these women’s action—and, perhaps more importantly, the public reaction to their stories—to reflect on society’s shifting attitudes about gender, anger, violence, and the law.”—Kirkus Reviews
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| | Basho’s Haiku Journeys
by Freeman Ng, illus. Cassandra Rockwood Ghanem
Stone Bridge Press • October 2021 • 9781611720693
“Ng recounts Basho’s travels from leaving city life behind to becoming a wanderer who embarked on five epic journeys across Japan. . . . [Young readers] will likely be inspired to write their own haiku; fortunately, there is a short explanation at the end of the book on how to compose one.”—Tricycle Magazine
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| | Go Back at Once
by Robert Aickman
And Other Stories • January 2022 • 9781913505202
“A witty, sophisticated work of 20th-century British fiction.”—Kirkus Reviews
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| | Vanda
by Marion Brunet, trans. Katherine Gregor
Bitter Lemon Press • April 2022 • 9781913394653
“A taut psychological thriller . . . This heart-wrenching slice of social realism will resonate with many.”—Publishers Weekly
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“Iridescent with tangible and psychological detail. . . . Weber presents a scintillating collection of short stories and a novella that encompass pathos and hilarity.”—Booklist
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“Childs brings refreshing humility . . . Readers might find here, along with a soul-saving historical perspective, a place of calm amid our noise.”—Booklist
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“Cox’s fans are sure to be pleased. . . . with this collection of 10 eerie and darkly comical tales set in the North of England.”—Publishers Weekly
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ABA Bestseller
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie
Haymarket Books • January 2022 • 9781642592580
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Mister N
by Najwa Barakat, trans. Luke Leafgren
And Other Stories • May 2022 • 9781913505325
Modern-day Beirut is seen through the eyes of a failed writer in this cunning and layered dark comedy from a master of contemporary Arabic fiction.
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Jon Klassen meets Carson Ellis in this poignant debut picture book about an unlikely friendship that grows and changes with the seasons.
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Lolo joins the school play and helps clean up a beach in this fourth installment of the charming chapter book series about an adventurous South African girl.
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Radium Girls
by Cy
Iron Circus Comics • May 2022 • 9781945820991
This graphic novel gives voice to the real-life women who fought for workers’ rights—and their lives—after horrific management failures led to extreme cases of radiation poisoning in 1918.
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