New York. Bloomsbury. 2025. 144 pages.All eight stories that comprise this captivating, wise, and uncanny collection adopt first-person narrators. These individual voices tend to spea…
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New York. Knopf. 2025. 416 pages.The literary world is abuzz with excitement because award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel is finally here. In Dream Count… -
New York. New York Review Books. 2024. 224 pages.What is a walled enclosure or a rhyming couplet capable of doing? Each shape or pattern, social or literary, lays claim to a limited range of poten… -
London. Istros Books. 2024. 360 pages.Andrea Tompa is a Transylvanian Hungarian writer living in Budapest whose novels often deal with Transylvanian themes and with the history of the… -
Madison, Wisconsin. Ji Wai Books. 2024. 666 pages.To Tune the Beast isn’t a debut speculative fiction novel. It’s a polemic. A gentle raging at what is not in balance set ami… -
New York. Dutton. 2024. 512 pages.Hailed by the critics as the “king of Danish crime fiction,” a title he despises, Jussi Adler-Olsen earned an international reputation through his mo… -
Paris. Lattès. 2024. 306 pages.Ces soleils ardents (These fiery suns) is the impressive first novel by a twenty-two-year-old writer who grew up in Côte d’Ivo… -
New York. MCD. 2024. 464 pages.A decade ago Jeff VanderMeer published Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance, three novels telling one story about a strip… -
New York. Archipelago Books. 2024. 208 pages.The title reverberates through each of the seven electrifying—mostly brief and one novella-length—selections in Maylis de Kerangal’s linke… -
Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2024. 360 pages.Rodrigo Fresán is skeptical about the merits of fiction featuring famed, long-dead authors. In a previous novel, his narrator describ… -
New York. Hogarth. 2025. 112 pages.“Hunchback was my revenge,” the author Saou Ichikawa stated at the prestigious Akutagawa Prize award cere… -
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2024. 256 pages.Napalm in the Heart is an imaginative novel that provides a sketch of dystopia through letters, photographs, tally marks,… -
London. Scribe. 2025. 480 pages.Located on the Austrian–Hungarian border, the eponymous village of Darkenbloom holds many secrets that over a few days in the summer of 1989 slowly beg… -
New York. Knopf. 2024. 464 pages.After six years of eager anticipation, Haruki Murakami has finally delivered The City and Its Uncertain Walls. Picking up where Killing C… -
Seattle. Amazon Crossing. 2024. 223 pages. Angélica Lopes made a name for herself in Brazil as a journalist and soap opera screenwriter. She is also the author of a number of young a… -
Madrid. Alfaguara. 2024. 322 pages. Spanish writer Sergio del Molino won the Alfaguara Novel Prize for 2024 with Los alemanes. The title refers to Germans who had been living in Came… -
Houston. Veliz. 2024. 146 pages. Late in Adriana Riva’s stirring debut novel, Ema, our narrator, arrives in her mother’s erstwhile hometown in provincial Argentina, where workers wil… -
New York. W. W. Norton. 2024. 272 pages. Ghostroots engages parallel worlds where one universe collapses into the other. The reader wanders the in-between, the liminal space where re… -
New York. NRYB Classics. 2025. 162 pages. And now for something completely madcap. Or, how would you feel if a shower of heavy bolts from an ancient Soviet satellite fell at thirty… -
Madrid. Alianza. 2024. 194 pages. Drawn in by its bright fuchsia façade, Pepa walks through the doors of Pasión Nails, a manicure salon in one of her hometown’s poor neighborho… -
New York. New Directions. 2024. 194 pages. After winning the 2023 National Translation Award in Prose for the English translation of Chinatown, Nguyễn An Lý returns with a translatio… -
Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 2024. 174 pages. In this anthology, noted Choctaw scholar Devon A. Mihesuah offers a dozen tales combining people from history and legend as wel… -
Brooklyn. Rossum Press. 2023. 194 pages. Shortlisted for the NIN literary award, among Serbia’s most prestigious, Milan Tripković’s postmodern mock-heroic skewers the corruption, vio… -
New York. New Vessel Press. 2024. 199 pages. First published in France in 2023 and immediately nominated for the Goncourt, The Propagandist is a fist-in-your-face cautionary tale. A… -
Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press. 2024. 352 pages. Billed as a postapocalyptic dystopian noir, Mevlido’s Dreams manifests flashes of multiple genres without ever fully comm…