Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artwork from the book Intimacies by Jwan Yosef, published by Baron. Jwan Yosef poses for a photograph holding the book Born in ...

For nearly two decades, Jwan Yosef has honed a distinctive style characterized by “vibrant and introspective works that bridge the realms of identity, culture, and emotion,” as described in the ...

In a scene from Katie Kitamura’s new novel, Intimacies, the narrator is interpreting for an African dictator, who’s on trial for crimes against humanity in The Hague, at an institution based on the ...

The unnamed narrator of Katie Kitamura’s novel “Intimacies” (Riverhead, 225 pages, $26) has moved from New York to the Hague to take a temporary position as an interpreter at the International Court ...

Her new novel, “Intimacies,” introduces readers to the perceptive, digressive mind of an interpreter at The Hague who is dealing with loss, an uncertain relationship and an insecure world. By Brandon ...

At the opening of Katie Kitamura’s intense, unsettling new novel, “Intimacies,” an unnamed narrator has left New York in a fugue of grief and signed a one-year contract in The Hague. “I rode the tram ...

The novelist and art critic Katie Kitamura suggested we meet at David Zwirner gallery on 19th Street. She wanted to catch a show by Rose Wylie, an 86-year-old British artist who creates massive ...

Tipped by Barack Obama, this is an addictively mysterious novel about a woman adrift in her own life “The appearance of simplicity is not the same thing as simplicity itself,” thinks the narrator of ...

The slightly directionless, unnamed narrator of Katie Kitamura’s fourth novel, “Intimacies,” takes a job as a translator at an international criminal court. On this week’s podcast, Kitamura talks ...