New York. HarperVia. 2022. 224 pages.
SOME NOVELS SHOUT their politics; others whisper them. Anuradha Roy’s compelling fifth novel, The Earthspinner, belongs to the…
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Seattle. Amazon Crossing. 2022. 128 pages. EMMELIE PROPHÈTE’S Blue is a study in liminality and alienation. Blue is set in a Miami airport, a liminal space where the…
San Francisco. Two Lines Press. 2022. 168 pages. FOLLOWING PUBLICATION OF Masatsugu Ono’s Echo on the Bay and Lion Cross Point (translated by Angus Turvill; see …
New York. MCD. 2022. 272 pages. JONATHAN ESCOFFERY, recipient of the 2020 Plimpton Prize and the ASME Award for Fiction, builds a vibrant family saga from a series of interconnected s…
Brooklyn. Archipelago Books. 2022. 152 pages. SCHOLASTIQUE MUKASONGA’S family was massacred in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Mukasonga was elsewhere and missed the carnage; forcing her…
New York. Viking. 2022. 288 pages. A DREAM: I am helping a boy fly a kite. We are in Afghanistan, where, it seems, all boys fly kites, especially in spring. Spring: t…
Berkeley. Stone Bridge Press. 2022. 264 pages. EMMITT HAS A PLAN for the next year: move out of his in-laws’ house and into his dream home with his wife, Mirai, quit his unfulfilling…
New York. Other Press. 2022. 160 pages. MIGUEL BONNEFOY FREEFALLS into his strangely alluring new novel, Heritage, which makes a desperate attempt to understand the internal…
Barcelona. Comba. 2021. 290 pages. CARMEN, a thirty-six-year-old professor, visits her hometown, Tarsis, a mining town in the province of Huelva in southern Spain. The return brings b…
Mexico City. Seix Barral. 2021. 394 pages. In Y LÍBRANOS DEL MAL, Santiago Roncagliolo’s latest novel, the Peruvian author and winner of the prestigious Premio Alfag…
Fredericton, New Brunswick. Goose Lane Editions. 2022. 256 pages. THE EPIGRAPH TO Elaine McCluskey’s fourth collection of stories is drawn from her story “Hope”: “Life is just one ext…
New York. Liveright. 2022. 304 pages. THE PROTAGONIST OF the novel Time Shelter reads a newspaper article describing a geriatrics doctor who “decked out his office in the sty…
New York. Viking. 2022. 403 pages. BOOKER PRIZE–NOMINATED Glory traces the tragic descent into violent despotism of democratic, newly free Zimbabwe (alias Jidada). This power…
London. Picador. 2022. 336, 384, and 688 pages. SHIMON ADAF’S Lost Detective Trilogy embodies many worlds, attitudes, genres, and voices. Like Walt Whitman and Bob Dylan, it contains…
Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2022. 328 pages. WELL BEFORE THE current Russian invasion provided a global spotlight on Ukraine, contemporary Ukrainian writers were forging their own literary t…
New York. Doubleday. 2022. 288 pages. ONE WOULD HARDLY expect a book that is wholly preoccupied with death to be full of energy and vibrant imagery, but that is just one way that Ayan…
Brooklyn. Restless Books. 2022. 224 pages. “HOME” CAN BE hard to pin down when you’re uprooted from two continents. Family, friendships, and even one’s own identity scatter like the w…
New York. Gaudy Boy. 2022. 296 pages. FROM A STONE house in a tiny village at the edge of the Caspian Sea to the close quarters of a two-room Soviet apartment in the urban landscape o…
New York. World Editions. 2022. 268 pages. STINE PILGAARD’S SLIM novel digs into the psyche of a young woman who finds herself displaced into a remote corner of her native Denmark whe…
St. Paul, Minnesota. River Boat Books. 2020. 458 pages. TO DISTINGUISH THEIR art from that of the crowds of writers publishing today, many authors wander off well-trodden paths to exp…
Eugene, Oregon. Resource. 2022. 221 pages. THIS IS A TOUCHING book, a moving gift when one is sorely needed. Old Dog is the life story of a dog and also a meditation…
London. World Editions. 2021. 288 pages. THERE ARE PLACES we feel drawn to without knowing why—landscapes that beckon, cityscapes that call. For some people, it’s a travel destination…
Hangzhou. China. Zhejiang Literature & Art Publishing House. 2022. 559 pages. WANG JIANG NAN (Memories of Jiang Nan) is claimed by Wang Xufeng, the laureate of t…
New York. Dottir Press. 2022. 264 pages. QUAKE, THE FIRST of Icelandic author Auður Jónsdóttir’s novels to be translated into English, is an absorbing and disquieting journey…
New York. Bellevue Literary Press. 2022. 208 pages. THE NINE BLISTERING, sometimes fantastical short stories in exiled Iranian writer Shahriar Mandanipour’s first collection to appear…