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We’re in the first month of the Year of the Tiger—a sign known for strength, courage, and independence—so let’s celebrate with “tiger” stories by some bold, undomesticated women.
Award-winning Japanese author Shion Miura’s latest novel is a moving coming-of-age story about Yuki Hirano, an aimless 18-year-old city boy. We meet Yuki as he’s embarking on a year-long forestry apprenticeship that his parents hope will help him mature.
Anjanette Delgado is the editor of a new anthology, Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness. We recently spoke with her and discussed the complexity of Florida and how Americans see and experience it in different ways.
Gina Frangello’s latest book, Blow Your House Down, tells the story of how she left her bad marriage in explosive fashion and is a testament to a woman’s power to make choices for herself, even if they’re deeply unpopular.
In 2016, inspired by an Egyptian dancer's 1940s journey across the United States, Randa Jarrar sets off on a solo road trip from California to Connecticut. The result is a sexually, emotionally, and philosophically provocative coming-of-age story that explores what it means to be a “Queer, Muslim. Arab American and proudly fat femme” in modern America, but also what it means to be entirely and unapologetically human.
We talk with Heart Radical author Anne Liu Kellor about agnostic Buddhism, the power of relationships abroad, and the challenges and opportunities about writing from your life.
Anne Liu Kellor, author of Heart Radical, talks writing, travel during simpler times, representation in the media, and how to immerse oneself in another country.
At the intersection of the 2020 Black Lives Matters protests in Washington, DC and the COVID-19 pandemic, Priyanka Surio has reassessed what it means to be a mindful and responsible citizen of the world.
Conceived by Anthony Bourdain and completed by his longtime co-author and assistant, Laurie Woolever, World Travel takes us around the globe one last time with Bourdain’s signature wisdom, humor, and open-hearted curiosity.
Get ready to fill up your Kindle or your carry-on. Our editors and contributors recommend eight irresistible page-turners…with an Undomesticated twist: Expect strong women, international settings, and ideas to chew on.
This profound memoir traces Nyamayaro’s path from near-starvation to world-recognized humanitarian leader. Far more than just an inspirational story, I Am a Girl from Africa presents a practical and poetic roadmap for changing the world.
Recent college graduate Amy Dong’s collection of connected essays explores what it means to grow up, at home and abroad, and what happens when life doesn’t go according to plan.
In the mid-1980s at Oxford, Isabella’s cricket-star boyfriend Ash moves home to India for an arranged marriage, but he leaves behind a note, asking her to meet him at Oxford on a date 25 years in the future.
Susan Pohlman is a writer and host of the Phoenix Writers Network who knows firsthand the power of travel to inspire and heal. Her latest memoir, A Time to Seek, takes her to Florence as she’s struggling to find a second act in midlife.
Writer Jennifer de Leon’s new collection takes us around the world—and unveils a rich internal coming of age.
Natalia Sylvester is the author of three critically acclaimed novels. Her debut, Chasing the Sun was followed by Everyone You Know Goes Home. Her latest, Running, is a young adult novel that came out last year just in time for the election. Sylvester immigrated to the United States from Peru at the age of four and is based in Texas now.
In Damascus, Rana and her friends live in bright apartments full of hope, as they watch the Egypt Spring unfold on TV and wonder if their Syria would be next. But it’s in the drab apartment blocks in England that Rana looks back at her promising college career and the many kilometers she walked and rode overland hidden in a frigid fruit truck to what she thought would be safety in the UK.
Memoirist Janice MacLeod brings Paris alive with a new collection of her painted letters spanning almost a decade.
Writer and filmmaker Elizabeth Rynecki searched the globe to the lost art of her great grandfather, Moshe Rynecki, who painted almost 800 scenes of Jewish Polish life before he was sent to the Warsaw Ghetto and was later murdered at the Majdanek concentration camp. She wrote about this journey in Chasing Portraits: A Great-Granddaughter’s Quest for Her Lost Art Legacy and later produced a documentary of this search in the film Chasing Portraits. We recently spoke to Rynecki about her book, her film, and her quest for answers.
Pam Logan, author of Compassion Mandala and founder of the Kham Aid Foundation, an NGO bringing resources to Tibet, talks about everything from starting an NGO to international relationships to the opportunities and challenges facing today’s non-profit organizations.
To access world literature beyond what was translated and censored in the Islamic Republic, I had to improve my English and enter the world of banned books which were smuggled in alongside alcohol, Western film, and music. Limited and expensive, but accessible through the right contacts. Reading books from across the world was a turning point in my life.
Julianne Pachico’s second novel is a vivid portrait of a woman and searching for identity in present-day Medellin.
Angie Cruz, award-winning author of Dominicana, Soledad, and Let it Rain, discusses the most-anticipated books of winter/spring 2021.
Pam Mandel, travel writer and author of The Same River Twice shares her thoughts on the joys of getting lost, how travel helps us become ourselves, and her ongoing quest for the strange, beautiful, and unknown.
If you want a spirited book club discussion, choose forbidden love. Here are some great reads that feature international affairs worth talking about.
In Peace Adzo Medie’s debut novel, His Only Wife, a young Ghanian woman leaves home for the promise of the metropolis of Accra. But upward mobility comes with a price.
A nameless woman enters a hotel room. She’s been here once before. In the years since, the room hasn’t changed, but she has. Forever caught between check-in and check-out, she will go on to occupy other hotel rooms. From Avignon to Oslo, Auckland to Austin, each is as anonymous as the last but bound by the rules of her choosing.
Since reading Xu Xi and Robin Hemley’s latest offering, The Art and Craft of Asian Stories, I’ve been reconsidering everything I learned in my chi-chi American liberal arts college education.