Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga (Author), Jordan Stump (Translator)
Our Lady of the Nile: A Novel by Scholastique Mukasonga (Author), Melanie Mauthner (Translator)
The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger (Author)
Zama (New York Review Books Classics) by Antonio Di Benedetto (Author), Esther Allen (Translator, Preface)
Story of Love in Solitude by Roger Lewinter (Author), Rachel Careau (Translator)
The Attraction of Things by Roger Lewinter (Author), Rachel Careau (Translator)
Michel Leiris: Phantom Africa
What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
By Junichiro Tanizaki: translated by J. Keith Vincent
Frontier by Can Xue
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds
The Face: Cartography of the Void by Chris Abani
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
Memoirs of a Polar Bear Kindle by Yoko Tawada (Author), Susan Bernofsky (Translator)
The Last Wolf & Herman: Laszlo Krasznahorkai, John Batki, George Szirtes
Ema the Captive: Cesar Aira, Christ Andrews (Translator)
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marias and Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
The School Days of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee
Moses by Alain Mabakouc
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Tram83 by Fiston Mwanza Muila and Roland Glasser (Translatior)
Transit: A Novel (Global African Voices)Aug 20, 2012 by Abdourahman A. Waberi and David Ball
Ladivine by Marie NDiaye and Jordan Stump (Translator)
The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy by Paulina Chiziane and David Brookshaw (Translator)
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Near to the Wild Heart
by Clarice Lispector (Author), Alison Entrekin (Translator), Benjamin Moser
Claudia Rankine: An American Lyric:
Summary: Claudia Rankine’s Citizen is an indictment of our times. Using a poetic frame, she uncovers an insidious racism embedded in the everyday – from Main Street USA to the lecture halls of the Ivory Tower. An offhand comment or a helpful call from a neighbor can carry ominous weight, as Rankine’s observations move from bewilderment to disappointment to quiet ire. Citizen is a true revelation – it leaves its readers unsettled, moved, and changed with every page.
This program is presented in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Poetry Foundation, Illinois Humanities, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
