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The covers of the books featured in the August Watchlist: The Details, Lojman, Wenling's, A Practical...

The Watchlist: August 2023

By Tobias Carroll

Tobias Carroll recommends new and exciting reads from Angola, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.

Toward Our Common Destruction: Humans and the Environment

By Eric M. B. Becker

The protagonist of this month’s work is the natural world in its multitudes.

The Sky’s Seams Burst

Rain was no longer rain!

Translated from Portuguese by Stephen Henighan

If Nothing Else Helps, Read Clarice

By José Eduardo Agualusa

I’m afraid of turning on the TV and, like someone going into the Underground at rush hour, of having my intelligence stepped on, whether out of carelessness or malice.

Translated from Portuguese by Stefan Tobler

An Interview with José Eduardo Agualusa

By Paulo Polzonoff Jr.

José Eduardo Agualusa, 46, is a growing name in world literature. Born in Huambo, Angola, Agualusa has already been embraced across the Portuguese-speaking literary world—especially in Brazil and Portugal,…

Translated from Portuguese by Paulo Polzonoff Jr. & Anderson Tepper

A Practical Guide to Levitation

By José Eduardo Agualusa

I do not like parties. The idle chat, the smoke, the fatuous talk of drunks, I find them all tiresome.

Translated from Portuguese by Daniel Hahn

The Book of Wheeling

Today, for some unknown reason, I've decided to share with you certain indiscretions that even my wife is unaware of.

Translated from Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers

Comrade António and the Cuban Teachers

But Comrade António, don't you prefer to live in a free country?

Translated from Portuguese by Stephen Henighan

I brought flowers . . .

By Ana Paula Tavares

I brought flowers / They're not all white, Mother

Translated from Portuguese by Richard Zenith

Dragonfly

Knowing this-that the doctor appeared deep in his Sunday routine-the woman hesitated.

Translated from Portuguese by Lisa Grayson