Castroville, Texas. Black Rose Writing. 2020. 311 pages.
MICHELE LEVY'S debut novel, Anna’s Dance: A Balkan Odyssey, is a coming-of-age tale that follows the journey of an Am…
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East Lansing. Michigan State University Press. 2019. 174 pages. SAMIHA KHRAIS is a Jordanian novelist whose work has the imprimatur of those with heft, political and cultural, in her…
Seattle, Washington. 47North. 2020. 546 pages. AFROFANTASY. It’s a largely unsung literary tradition in the making, one that grapples with the whiteness and westernness of mass-market…
Paris. Albin Michel. 2019. 336 pages. SENEGALESE AUTHOR Fatou Diome’s latest novel, Les veilleurs de Sangomar (The watchmen of Sangomar), plunges the reader into young Senega…
Berlin. Hansa Berlin. 2019. 243 pages. EVERY NOW AND AGAIN, you come across a book you instantly know you must read and will devour. This is exactly how I felt upon seeing Marzahn…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2020. 240 pages. FOUR DAYS BEFORE HER wedding to an elementary school principal, our protagonist, known only as the bride, is confronted by her gr…
Boston. Mariner Books. 2020. 208 pages. ANDRÉS BARBA’S A Luminous Republic is a hell of a little novel. The Spanish writer returns to one of his favorite types of people to w…
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Coffee House. 2020. 144 pages. IN HIS THRILLING NOVEL Ornamental, Colombian art critic, translator, curator, and renowned author Juan Cárdenas masterf…
Paris. Gallimard. 2020. 365 pages. IN 2016 LEÏLA SLIMANI won the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious annual literary prize, for her novel Chanson douce (see WLT…
New York. Random House. 2020. 368 pages. YIYUN LI, ONE OF THE MOST acclaimed contemporary American writers, continually reinvents herself. Her last novel, The Kindness of Solitude…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2020. 288 pages. MASTER STORYTELLER MIA COUTO frames an inspired tale with actual events in The Sword and the Spear. The novel illustrate…
Fredericton, New Brunswick. Goose Lane Editions. 2020. 240 pages. A CHARACTER IN Deni Ellis Béchard’s previous novel, White (2018), describes people as “clusters of expectati…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2020. 309 pages. THE GILEAD CYCLE is a series of theological novels (Gilead, Home, Lila, and now Jack) that explore the nature o…
New York. Verso. 2020. 432 pages. OSAMA, THE BROKEN BUT learned Marxist in Fatima Bhutto’s The Runaways, delineates a way of looking at societies that provides a much-needed…
Charlottesville. University of Virginia Press. 2020. 186 pages. THE BELLE CRÉOLE, Maryse Condé’s twelfth novel, was originally published in French in 2001. The 2020 English t…
New York. Grove Atlantic. 2020. 240 pages. IN HIS LATEST NOVEL, Track Changes—the final installment in a quartet that explores the liminal position occupied by Palestinian ci…
New York. Little, Brown. 2020. 368 pages. HOMELAND ELEGIES is Ayad Akhtar’s second novel following American Dervish, published in 2012. In the interim, Akhtar has be…
New York. Other Press. 2020. 688 pages. VICTOR DEL ÁRBOL served as a Catalan police officer for two decades ending in 2012, so one would naturally expect him, as with writers like Jos…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2020. 320 pages. MIDWAY THROUGH Carlos Fonseca’s new novel, an actress who has exchanged the limelight for a sprawling, subversive art project su…
New York. Europa Editions. 2020. 318 pages. THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS is Elena Ferrante’s first published novel following the monumental success of her Neapolitan Quartet, whi…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2020. 368 pages. “AN EARTHQUAKE FRACTURES the present, shatters perspective, shifts memory plates.” In Fracture, Andrés Neuman revisits t…
London. Jantar. 2019. 219 pages. IN BELLEVUE, Ivana Dobrakovová, winner of the European Prize for Literature, pulls no punches for her readers or her protagonist, nineteen-ye…
London. Seagull Books. 2019. 303 pages. IN 2016 I CHATTED with Sonallah Ibrahim about his then-new novel, Berlin 69, published in Arabic in 2014.…
Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2019. 185 pages. IN HER TOUR de force debut collection, Driving in Cars with Homeless Men, Kate Wisel weaves the stories…
Burlington, Vermont. Fomite. 2019. 236 pages. BOOKENDED BY A LYRIC from Emily Dickinson’s “We dream – it is good we are dreaming,” and from which its title is appropriately borrowed,…