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Navona ha publicado la definitiva edición del clásico de Alejandro Dumas, El conde de Montecristo (1844); este lanzamiento es ahora considerado en el mundo de libros como “un gran acontecimiento literario europeo” en la lengua española, por razones muy justas.
In Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly brings into fuller view the crucial role played by four African-American women at NASA during the segregated 1940s-60s, and she gives us a powerful, revelatory contribution to underwritten histories, essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America.
In Writing to Save a Life, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, father of iconic, young Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till, himself executed by the Army ten years before his son’s murder via lynching in 1955. The result is a searing conversation between generations, the living and the dead, fathers and sons.
In House of Lords and Commons, Ishion Hutchinson returns to the difficult beauty of the Jamaican landscape with remarkable lyric precision, holding his world at an astonishing angle: from the violence of the seventeenth-century English Civil War as refracted through a mythic sea wanderer, right down to the dark interior of love.
In Nineveh, Henrietta Rose-Innes has produced a new novel hailed as a “gripping, thrilling allegory of a troubled nation... executed with wit, panache, precision and something” that can only be called “wounded love for the country the author calls her home.”
Zadie Smith presents her fifth novel, Swing Time, a fluid meditation, by way of a cross-racial relationship between two female protagonists, on race, class, geopolitics, dance, storytelling, and history as they manifest in London, New York, and West Africa.
In Black and British, David Olusoga reveals the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa, drawing on new genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony, and contemporary interviews to take readers through a vital and shared history.
In Shakespeare in Swaziland, Edward Wilson-Lee presents us with a fascinating book to coincide with the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death this April 2016: a vast tracing of Shakespeare as a global poet; a sequence of stories and travels from Zanzibar, through to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Sudan.
In Forget English! Aamir Mufti scrutinizes the claims made on behalf of world literature, arguing that at the center of its very possibility as a borderless, egalitarian and global body of writings remains the dominance of English — as a literary language, a cultural system of international reach, and the undisputed vernacular of global capitalism.
In Ideas to Live For, Giles Gunn asks whether and how our sense of the human might be reconstructed, not around suspicion or antipathy toward others, but around an epistemological and moral need of them.
In The Intimacies of Four Continents, Lisa Lowe reads across historical archives and literary canons in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries to connect the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within colonial conditions.
In Prose of the World, Saikat Majumdar suggests that the impoverished affective experience of modernity, as felt in colonial settings, significantly shaped the innovative aesthetics we have come to see as a hallmark of modernist fiction.
In Beyond Bolaño, Hector Hoyos defines new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era, calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation that affirm the lead role of Latin American authors in reshaping world literature.
In Readings, Gayatri Spivak elaborates a utopian vision for the kind of deep and investigative reading that can develop a will for peaceful social justice in coming generations.
In Habeas Viscus, Alexander Weheliye studies the centrality of race to notions of the human, developing a theory of “racializing assemblages” that traces how race as a set of sociopolitical processes disciplines humanity, writ large, into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans.
