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Whether you celebrate or lament Valentine’s Day, here’s a new story of love’s demise.The Critic had a new girlfriend. He had met her at a Barnes and Noble,…
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January 20, 2025Despite a purported alliance with Albania’s King Zog, who had been in power since 1922, Mussolini invaded Albania on April 7, 1939. Here, Albanian writer Moikom Zeqo (1949–2020) reimagines the pre…
December 18, 2024Photo by Alicia Christin Gerald / Unsplash When authorities take Penny Barnhill’s little girl, the single mother must get Phoebe back and find a way—despite being broke—to escape their shatter…
August 27, 2024Photo by avtk / stock.adobe.com Two sisters, one childhood, two versions—and a green sweater. In Anna Voltaggio’s “Lucilla,” the lives of two sisters trace corresponding arcs from childho…
July 24, 2024J. Williams / Unsplash.com In this excerpt from María Elena Morán’s Premio Café Gijón–winning novel, Volver a cuándo (Siruela, 2022), a woman in a refugee camp takes stock of her belo…
July 3, 2024Photo by Datingscout on Unsplash Personal Identity Number is a coming-of-age novel about a Macedonian-Cypriot girl in a dysfunctional family in post-Yugoslav and newly formed Macedonia. Seekin…
June 11, 2024Photo by Ella Moniz On June 11, 2024, Algonquin published Tomas Moniz’s second novel, All Friends Are Necessary. Set during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in Oakland, Ca…
December 20, 2023Epic Photos / Adobe Stock Aboard the North Star IX December 26, 208. . . My dear Celeste: First, allow me to say that you were right, so many years ago, when you said that thi…
September 27, 2023By admirdervisevi - stock.adobe.com András Visky is a Hungarian author living in Romania with a body of work that spans most literary genres, from poetry to drama and fiction to…
June 13, 2023Photo by Why Kei / Unsplash Jung’s Yong-jun’s short story “Disappearing Things,” from his collection A Walk along Seoulleung, won the Moonji Literary Award in 2019. The story’s prota…
Photo by Chris Ensminger / Unsplash Wolf Food (prologue) by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko translated by Katie Kassam In this prologue to a science-fiction novella,…
November 16, 2022Photo by Gerardo Covarrubias / Unsplash It’s Australia’s first Halloween under the TASLA government. But what will it mean to Recharge a loved one? Evana is cooking chicken for th…
August 22, 2022Sugar cane fields at sunset, near Les Trois Mamelles, Mauritius. Credit: Ian Boswell In this excerpt from the forthcoming translation of the seminal Mauritian Hindi novel Lal Pasina…
August 9, 2022Photo by john_Onate / flickr Book of the Damned is a novel that charts—through multiple narrators who may or may not be invested in the truth about a central shadowy character, Felix Cane…
May 25, 2022Photo by Aaron Burden / Unsplash While recovering at the hospital following a fall, a woman in her seventies recounts her life living under the thumb of a domineering husband and expresse…
May 18, 2022Photo by Myznik Egor on Unsplash 1999 by Ilija Trojanow In the old days, an adulterer was considered morally corrupt. Bad man, bad little man. If it was someone fr…
March 2, 2022Photo by Pierre Châtel-Innocenti / Unsplash In Winter Lights, rising star Irati Elorrieta’s first novel, Añes is a Basque woman who has immigrated to Berlin by way of Paris. Her…
February 8, 2022Photo by Guile Twardowski / Unsplash Malika Moustadraf is a feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrated for her stark interrogation of gender and sexuality in North Afri…
November 17, 2021Homa, The Tree of Zaqqum (2012) / Wikipedia The following satirical column first appeared in Persian on Afghanistan International. The Taliban have faced censure f…
September 13, 2021Drawing inspiration from the writing of Lesley Nneka Arimah, Edwin Okolo creates a world of birth factories, colossal levees, secret labs, and New Biafra, where we find Ameli, Lotanna’s wife—bec…
June 24, 2021Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, France / Photo by Linda Gerbec / Unsplash Gare du Nord (an excerpt) It’s 12:30 p.m. and her pale-blue blouse is soaked in sweat, her…
June 22, 2021Photo by Hollie Santos / Unsplash When a woman’s husband leaves her, she feels betrayed by her daughter, who had not been able to fulfill her duty, her purpose for coming into existence.…
June 7, 2021Photo by Peter Boccia / Unsplash After renting a room in an Indian family’s house in England, the Croatian tenant becomes privy to one member’s dreams of return. “This is it!” Parv…
May 17, 2021Photo by Aaron Burden / Unsplash Cleaning out her deceased father’s home in Dublin, a woman reluctantly accepts help from an unsettling stranger. My two sisters and I work thro…
January 25, 2021Photo by Dan Meyers / Unsplash A doctor on his village rounds confronts the same symptoms again and again, including uncontrollable laughter. The first patient of the day is an old…
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