Sabina Murray

Selected Links

The Rumpus

I talk to Margaret Lee about the joys of editing

HUFFPOST, After Sebald

Lithub

Sabina in conversation with Jane Ciabattari about The Human Zoo

New York Times Magazine

Letters of Recommendation: Spam, because I actually do eat Spam

LitHub

Gina Apostol discusses her provocative novel The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata

Cosmonauts Avenue

Philosophy, a personal essay about my mother

VICE

Man of the People, How could Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, despite his policy of murder, be so popular?

World Literature Today

My Mother, Migration, and Me, a meditation on my mother's immigrant status

LitHub

How Can We Make the MFA Workshop More Hospitable to Writers of Color, Ocean Vuong and I talk about silencing, compassion, and pedagogy

The Rumpus

Every Woman Is A Nation Unto Herself: A Conversation with Sabina Murray, I chat with Edie Meidav about the influences on Valiant Gentlemen

LitHub

What Can Historical Fiction Accomplish That History Does Not, Time theory and a prickly encounter with a "famous American writer."

Huffington Post

After Sebald, an essay that looks at Sebald's influence on contemporary writers

Paris Review

Wordsworth's she dwelt among the untrodden ways, essay about my grandfather's relationship with a poem

BOOKS

Following the life of knighted humanitarian and Irish revolutionary Roger Casement, Valiant Gentlemen was a 2016 New York Times Notable Book and included on the Washington Post Best Books of 2016 list.

Tales of the New World

Men and women—eccentrics, scientists, criminals, scholars, and artists—are lured by the unknown and driven to pursue it.

The Pequod, Gabriel Hennessy

Forgery

Rupert Brigg questions the authenticity of everything, even himself.

A Carnivore's Inquiry

Katherine shea has strange appetites, a love of art, and a string of unlucky boyfriends.

The Caprices

PEN/Faulkner Award winning collection of short stories

Slow Burn

The dark underbelly of Manila society in the decadent eighties.

Grandaddy and Lolo

" One of the most interesting novels I've read in years, Murray is at the height of her powers, offering us a breathtaking, funny, terrifying oracle." —ALEXANDER CHEE, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Murray may well be the most fearless and gloriously subversive novelist we have." —VALERIE MARTIN, author of Property

"The Human Zoo unfolds like the best of stories - one compelling detail following the next until an entire world emerges, full of revelations and aching truths. Murray has given us a powerful page-turner full of wry humor and shattering wisdom about love, family, the meaning of home, and history."—MAAZA MENGISTE, author of The Shadow King, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize