Graywolf
Autobiography of Cotton
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In 1934, nineteen-year-old José Revueltas ridespast fields of white gold cotton on his way from Mexico City to Estación Camarón near the ...Read Review
Across the China Sea
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“This is what the new world was like: Our own asylum, in the midst of a forest, in the midst of the parish, ...Read Review
The Pinch
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If you look carefully at the cover, you will see that The Pinch is considered simultaneously “a history” and “a novel,” which definitely ...Read Review
The Art of History: Unlocking the Past in Fiction & Nonfiction
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Christopher Bram (Father of Frankenstein, Eminent Outlaws) explores his love for the past in this delightful little book from Graywolf. “Some people dismiss ...Read Review
Almost Everything Very Fast
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On the face of it, this is a present-day story about a father and son. Albert is nineteen and has just finished high ...Read Review
A Woman Loved
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Should historical fiction include fiction in which a researcher looks back at the past, in this case the career of Catherine the Great? ...Read Review
The Wake
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Paul Kingsnorth’s challenging, heavily researched first novel, The Wake, is written in what he describes as a “shadow tongue” of Old English, ...Read Review
Song of the Shank
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Tom Wiggins was born a slave in Georgia in 1849. He was blind, and also appears to have been autistic—what was once unkindly ...Read Review
In Times of Fading Light
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Eugen Ruge’s newly translated literary novel lets us experience the political upheaval of a German family, interspersed with somewhat sarcastic reflections on ...Read Review
Seven Houses in France
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The Belgian occupation of the Congo was one of the bloodiest, cruelest events in modern history, a fact reflected in the title of ...Read Review
