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 secret…
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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 tod…
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—global…
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 as St…
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 Irania…
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 Ita…
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 Wa…
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 1980s…
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 colle…
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 hers…
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 darkness…
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 t…
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 th…
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 Beast…
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 n…
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 h…
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 Benjamin,…
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 in…
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 publish…
New Haven. Yale University Press. 2023. 168 pages. Ludmila Ulitskaya’s magnificent new collection, The Body of the Soul, enhances her reputation as one of the most important Russian w…
New York. Knopf. 2023. 224 pages. Jhumpa Lahiri began her career as a creative writer with the publication of her first collection of short stories, The Interpreter of Maladies (1999)…