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FICTION

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The Last White Man
Mohsin Hamid
Violeta
Isabel Allende. Trans. Frances Riddle
An Unlasting Home
Mai Al-Nakib
Seasons of Purgatory
Shahriar Mandanipour. Trans. Sara Khalili
Quake
Auður Jónsdóttir. Trans. Meg Matich
New Year
Juli Zeh. Trans. Alta L. Price
Old Dog: A Traveler’s Tale
Mark Seely
Crown of Beaks
Erik Martiny
The Land of Short Sentences
Stine Pilgaard. Trans. Hunter Simpson
Wang Jiang Nan (Memories of Jiang Nan)
Wang Xufeng

VERSE

Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong
A Country of Strangers: New and Selected Poems
D. Nurkse
Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation
Sudeep Sen
Tempo: Excursions in 21st Century Italian Poetry
Ed. Luca Paci. Trans. Various
Revenants
Adam Aitken
More Revolutionary Letters: A Tribute to Diane di Prima
I Come from a Country
Tijan M. Sallah
My Hollywood and Other Poems
Boris Dralyuk
Yellow Shade
Dimakatso Sedite

MISCELLANEOUS

Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions
Sabine Hossenfelder
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Elena Ferrante. Trans. Ann Goldstein
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet
Johan Rockström. Owen Gaffney
Milongas
Edgardo Cozarinsky. Trans. Valerie Miles
Cuíer: Queer Brazil
Trans. Various
Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground
Susan McKay
The Archipelago Conversations
Édouard Glissan. Hans Ulrich Obrist. Illus. Édouard Glissant. Trans. Emma Ramadan
Literature for a Changing Planet
Martin Puchner

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FICTION

The Last White Man
Mohsin Hamid

Violeta
Isabel Allende. Trans. Frances Riddle

An Unlasting Home
Mai Al-Nakib

Seasons of Purgatory
Shahriar Mandanipour. Trans. Sara Khalili

Quake
Auður Jónsdóttir. Trans. Meg Matich

New Year
Juli Zeh. Trans. Alta L. Price

Old Dog: A Traveler’s Tale
Mark Seely

Crown of Beaks
Erik Martiny

The Land of Short Sentences
Stine Pilgaard. Trans. Hunter Simpson

Wang Jiang Nan (Memories of Jiang Nan)
Wang Xufeng

VERSE

Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong

A Country of Strangers: New and Selected Poems
D. Nurkse

Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation
Sudeep Sen

Tempo: Excursions in 21st Century Italian Poetry
Ed. Luca Paci. Trans. Various

Revenants
Adam Aitken

More Revolutionary Letters: A Tribute to Diane di Prima

I Come from a Country
Tijan M. Sallah

My Hollywood and Other Poems
Boris Dralyuk

Yellow Shade
Dimakatso Sedite

MISCELLANEOUS

Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions
Sabine Hossenfelder

In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Elena Ferrante. Trans. Ann Goldstein

Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet
Johan Rockström. Owen Gaffney

Milongas
Edgardo Cozarinsky. Trans. Valerie Miles

Cuíer: Queer Brazil
Trans. Various

Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground
Susan McKay

The Archipelago Conversations
Édouard Glissan. Hans Ulrich Obrist. Illus. Édouard Glissant. Trans. Emma Ramadan

Literature for a Changing Planet
Martin Puchner