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It’s time to celebrate another year of translations, and there’s plenty to celebrate. The inaugural volume of Best Literary Translations 2024 arrived, published by Deep Vellum. Reviewing it f…
Michelle Johnson
December 10, 2024
Photo of Devika Rege by Aruna MalindaDevika Rege’s novel Quarterlife (Liveright, 2024) is populated with millennials who are discovering who they are and what they’re for in what is sometimes called “…
In December 2024 Tin House published Zahid Rafiq’s debut short-story collection, The World with Its Mouth Open. In these eleven stories from Kashmir, ordinary people have unusual days, which play out…
Photo of Praveen Herat by Candice NechitchIn Praveen Herat’s debut novel, Between This World and the Next (Restless Books, 2024), a British war photographer uncovers crime and corruption in a Cambodia…
September 25, 2024In September, the University of Georgia Press published Japa and Other Stories, Iheoma Nwachukwu’s debut collection of short fiction. In these eight stories, Nigerian immigrants trek through…
On September 17, 2024, Invisible Publishing will release Barrack Zailaa Rima’s graphic three-volume trilogy, Beirut, available in English for the first time in Carla Calargé and Alexandra Gueydan-Tur…
Photo of Elif Shafak by Ferhat ElikIn August, Knopf published Elif Shafak’s new novel, There Are Rivers in the Sky. In this story spanning centuries, three characters are connected by history, The Epi…
Photo of Gabriel Bump by Andrew RussellIn Gabriel Bump’s second novel, The New Naturals, people are seeking safety—safety from violence but also from the perils of capitalism, unsafe drinking water, f…
April 22, 2024Photo © Lee HaesooOn March 20, Restless Books published Kim Hye-jin’s Counsel Culture, a novel about a woman’s scapegoating and her path to redemption, translated by Jamie Chang. Haesoo…
Etel Adnan, Freedom of People, Freedom of Animals, Freedom of Plants, Freedom of Nature, 2011, leporello, ink, color, and oil pastel on paper, cover: 18.1 x 12.3 cm; 24 pages, 17.8 x 11.3 cm;…
April 16, 2024Ethel Rohan’s second novel, Sing, I, was published by TriQuarterly Books on April 15. The novel’s heroine, Ester Prynn, works in a convenience store in a coastal California town. A masked…
In March, Fonograf Editions published Isabel Zapata’s new bilingual collection, A Whale Is a Country, translated by Robin Myers. Animals appear throughout these poems and hybrid pieces, where we are a…
February 20, 2024Photo by Seong Ji Min Clayhouse Inc.Hwang Bo-reum’s debut novel, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, translated by Shanna Tan, was published on February 20 by Bloomsbury. In this indepen…
Photo of Bora Chung by Hye YoungThe author-translator duo shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize for Cursed Bunny have a new collection of stories, published in February. Author Bora Chun…
Brazilian crime-writer Patrícia Melo has a new novel available in English, translated from the Portuguese by Sophie Lewis. The Simple Art of Killing a Woman takes on femicide in Brazil, a justice syst…
Photo by Martin DeeIn October 2023 Restless Books published a new, illustrated edition of Bram Stoker’s gothic masterpiece, Dracula, with a foreword by Alexander Chee and an introduction by Silvia Mor…
Photo by Adam K. GlaserIn E. J. Koh’s debut novel, The Liberators, the lives of two families over four generations play out against the backdrops and legacies of Japan’s occupation of Korea and the Ko…
December 5, 2023In an interview up at the Booker Prizes, 2023 International Booker Prize–winning translator Angela Rodel describes the work of author and translator as a “duet.” Here we offer seventy-five duets in an…
Photo by Rodrigo JardónJazmina Barrera’s first novel, Cross-Stitch, translated by Christina MacSweeney, is an engrossing story of three friends as they come of age in Mexico City and while traveling t…
Photo by Angela BlankenshipIn Etaf Rum’s second novel, Evil Eye, a young Palestinian American artist and mother of two contends with the effects of intergenerational trauma and her complicated relatio…
September 18, 2023Photo © Laura MalmivaaraA deadly curse, mythical creatures, and a murder investigation: in Juhani Karila’s English-language debut, Fishing for the Little Pike, a young woman has much to c…
Javier Fuentes’s debut novel, Countries of Origin, finds pastry chef Demetrio leaving the US and returning to his birth country, Spain. On the flight to Madrid, he meets Jacobo, which begins a will-th…
Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s first collection of short stories, Happy Stories, Mostly, was longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize and published, in Tiffany Tsao’s English translation, in the…
Jane Wong’s memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, is a “story of lost enterprises”—for example, her family’s restaurant—but it’s also a story of a tender sibling relationship, a strong and comfort…
Beacon Press published Aaron Caycedo-Kimura’s collection Common Grace in 2022. A poet and visual artist, his paintings have appeared in galleries across Connecticut. Q Who are the poets we should be…
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