Olivia Shan

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s new graphic novel is a tender tribute to dogs The newly translated Dog Days from South Korean graphic novelist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim is a uniquely personal addition to the bibliography of an already major name in the contemporary comic scene. An auto-fictional retelling, Dog Days’s protagonists Yuna—Gendry-Kim’s fictitious stand-in—and her partner are stagnating through a rough patch. They decide to adopt a puppy as their hopeful cure-all.

Gis a new book by Klara du Plessis and Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi that began in a fricative sound that bridges their two native languages – Afrikaans and Persian. In both languages, “g” is a guttural sound, a throat-borne utterance that does not use the vocal cords.

Padma Viswanathan’s Like Every Form of Love is hard to classify. The subtitle, “A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime,” comes close, but only scratches the surface of this complex and profound work. A novelist, translator, and teacher, Viswanathan divides her time between Montreal and Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she and her husband, poet Geoffrey Brock, both work as professors at the University of Arkansas.