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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies is an existential thriller with a shadow text about the systems, the narratives, and the ambiguities that position the way we relate to each other and the way we see ...