Artwork from the book Intimacies by Jwan Yosef, published by Baron. Jwan Yosef poses for a photograph holding the book Born in Syria, Jwan Yosef grew up in Sweden, attended university in the United ...

In "Intimacies" (Riverhead) a new novel by Katie Kitamura, the acclaimed author of "A Separation," a woman is assigned to be the interpreter for a politician on trial for war crimes at 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 ...

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 ...

“It’s not a chest, not a butt, it’s not a torso – it’s a butt-chin,” says artist Jwan Yosef in the charming, beautifully polite manner in which he always speaks. “It’s fun for me to abstract body ...

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 ...

In "Intimacies" (Riverhead) a new novel by Katie Kitamura, the acclaimed author of "A Separation," a woman is assigned to be the interpreter for a politician on trial for war crimes at the ...