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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The covers of the books featured in the Watchlist: Aya: Claws Come Out; The Djinn's Apple; Blue...

The Watchlist: February 2024

By Tobias Carroll

From an Ivorian graphic novel to a historical murder mystery from Algeria, Tobias Carroll recommends five new books in translation to read this month.

An aerial view of wooded green islands in a large river

Aerial view of the Congo River near Kisangani. Photo by MONUSCO/Myriam Asmani, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Two Poems

By Fiston Mwanza Mujila

The River in the Belly, the second collection by award-winning poet Fiston Mwanza Mujila to appear in English, will be published by Deep Vellum next week in J. Bret Maney’s translation. In short “solitudes,” including the two that appear…

Translated by J. Bret Maney

The World at Home: US Writing in Translation

By Susan Harris

This issue is not a departure but a continuation.

Men and Beasts

By Daniel Sixte & Sinzo Aanza

Listen up—it’s not just General anymore. I’m Marshal General now.

Translated by Edward Gauvin

Comics and Graphic Narratives: A Global Cultural Commons

By Dominic Davies

Comics themselves have a role to play in the construction of a more globally aware social consciousness.

“Let’s Deal”: A Conversation with a Diamond Smuggler

By Jason Miklian

Retail customers rarely consider provenance an issue worthy of scrutiny before buying.

His Majesty: The Stomach

By Sony Labou Tansi

Doctors, Poinçon, I want doctors! Specialists.

Translated from French by Kristin Prevallet & Raymond G. Hounfodji

From “Shaba Deux: Les Carnets de Mère Marie-Gertrude”

By V. Y. Mudimbe

In the quiet of my room, I tackle the problem again, in vain; all I find is the line of my inauthenticity as a sin.

Translated from French by Marjolijn de Jager