The Masochist
Literature

The Masochist

Katja Perat’s novel is a serio-comical fictional romp through the Habsburg Empire of the fin de siècle, beginning in 1874 Lemberg (present day Lviv/Lvov in Ukraine), continuing to Vienna, and ending in the Habsburg Adriatic seaport of Trieste in 1912.
Literature

Libraries’ student essay contest open

Undergraduate and graduate students who love collecting books can submit entries for this year’s Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition. The deadline is March 5, and winners can receive up to $1,000.
Track Changes
Literature

Track Changes

Hailed as “an unusually gifted storyteller with exceptional insight” (Jewish Tribune), Bernstein award-winning writer Sayed Kashua presents his masterful fourth novel Track Changes which follows an Arab-Israeli man as he reckons with the weight of his past, his memories, and his cultural identity. Having emigrated to America years before, a nameless memoirist now residing in […]
I Dream of Popo
Literature

I Dream of Popo

Sam Fox School of Visual Arts alumna Julia Kuo, BFA ’07, illustrates this heartfelt book about the love between a granddaughter and her grandmother.
Ghost Letters
Literature

Ghost Letters

Baba Badji is a Senegalese-American poet, translator, researcher, and PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. He came to America when he was eleven years old. He currently lives in St. Louis, but his permanent home is Senegal, where his extended family remains, and New York City.
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