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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An unnamed woman arrives in The Hague to work as an interpreter for an unnamed court (that is very obviously the International Criminal Court) and gets caught up in a shocking act of violence, becomes ...

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 ...