London. Pamenar Press. 2023. 99 pages.
The prominent contemporary Mexican writer Alberto Chimal is known for a diverse, imaginative body of work that blurs the boundaries between the…
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Windsor, Ontario. Biblioasis. 2024. 456 pages. This intricate and lyrical novel, newly translated into English by the experienced Philip Roughton, opens in a churchyard amid the diso… -
New York. Bloomsbury. 2024. 313 pages. In Your Presence Is Mandatory, Sasha Vasilyuk delivers the riveting story of a Soviet veteran whose long-held personal s… -
New York. Scribner. 2023. 336 pages. To be publicly vilified, have your innocence questioned, and your life taken away is a scary position to be in. There’s a tension in the world to… -
Weston, Florida / Austin, Texas. Katakana Editores / Hablemos Escritoras. 2023. 297 pages. You may be excused for thinking Rosa Beltrán is the best novelist you hadn’t heard of—globa… -
Berkeley, California. Stone Bridge Press. 2023. 168 pages. Hiromi Kawakami’s most recent English release, Dragon Palace, separates itself from her previous renowned works, such… -
London. Hogarth. 2023. 240 pages. Khashayar J. Khabushani’s debut novel, I Will Greet the Sun Again, takes its title from the title of a poem by the acclaimed twentieth-century Irani… -
New York. Scribner. 2023. 368 pages. Based on the true story of a female doctor named Tan Yunxian in fifteenth-century China, Chinese American writer Lisa See’s latest work, Lady Tan… -
New York. New Directions. 2023. 96 pages. For those who are unfamiliar with Natalia Ginzburg’s distinctive style, her debut novel offers a vibrant preview. Published originally in It… -
Montreal. Drawn & Quarterly. 2023. 312 pages. Readers familiar with Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s work may find The Naked Tree a departure from the frontline documentary realism of The W… -
Paris. Gallimard. 2023. 256 pages. With her second novel, just published by Gallimard, Gaëlle Bélem takes the reader into the history of Reunion Island, long known as Bourbon Island.… -
Paris. Éditions Project’îles. 2023. 279 pages. Numerous works revealing “the other America” have been written or filmed since Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, from Martin Luther King Jr.… -
Paris. Flammarion. 2023. 512 pages. Although she had initially pursued a scientific career (in zooarchaeology), Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau started writing detective novels in the 1980… -
Lubbock. Texas Tech University Press. 2023. 182 pages. Bảo Ninh, a well-known Vietnamese writer, makes a long-awaited reappearance in English translation in this new short-story coll… -
Seattle. Fantagraphics Books. 2023. 106 pages. If there’s an overriding message in this remarkable graphic novel, it may be “Beware what you seek.” Monica is on a quest to define her… -
New York. World Editions. 2023. 424 pages. The German title of Juli Zeh’s latest novel is a provocation to the reader: Über Menschen brings connotations of the Nazi ideal of an Aryan… -
Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2024. 288 pages. Lucas Rijneveld, winner of the 2020 International Booker Prize for his debut novel, The Discomfort of Evening, is no stranger to darknes… -
New York. Riverhead Books. 2024. 240 pages. We are taught from a young age that history and fiction are two different epistemological categories. Simply, we are taught that one is a… -
New York. Bloomsbury. 2024. 320 pages. My favorite method of procrastination is to wander on Google Maps and bookmark places that interest me—ostensibly with the intent of visiting t… -
London. Faber & Faber. 2023. 304 pages. In her first collection of short stories written in English, Yan Ge presents tales that mesmerize and unsettle. Much like her Strange Beas… -
Padstow, UK. 3Times Rebel. 2023 (©2022). 226 pages. Sexual stories are difficult to tell well. Writers get bogged down in the complexities of the emotional gymnastics of sex, to say… -
Los Angeles. And Other Stories. 2024. 240 pages. Michelino has grown up spending summers at his grandfather’s estate near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, immersed in the stories of… -
Montréal. Mémoire d’encrier. 2023. 192 pages. Adrien Chanson will stop at nothing to obtain a violin, the instrument that has enchanted him since the moment he saw Monsieur Benj… -
Richmond, Virginia. Honford Star. 2023. 128 pages. That the Second World War—not just the atomic bombs, as kaiju movies emphasize, but the whole imperial enterprise Japan undertook i… -
Rochester. Open Letter Books. 2023. 303 pages. Katie Whittemore’s translation of Juan Gómez Bárcena’s Not Even the Dead is a master class in the art of translation. Originally publis…