Amelina, Victoria. Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2025.
I recently heard about this book from a colleague at work. It is a diary about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Russians killed Amelina in 2023.
Nin, Anaïs. Incest: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934. Orlando: Harvest, 1993.
I just finished the first volume of Nin’s unexpurgated diaries, which was interesting enough that I decided to order the second volume.
Shiki, Masaoka. Selected Poems. Translated by Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Shiki is one of the most important figures in the history of haiku because of how his literary criticism reinvigorated the genre at the beginning of the twentieth century. I have only read his poems here and there in anthologies and articles about his work, but after recently reading the section on him in Harold G. Henderson’s An Introduction to Haiku I decided it was time to study him more deeply.
Daniel Shank Cruz 