Photo by Alicia Christin Gerald / UnsplashWhen authorities take Penny Barnhill’s little girl, the single mother must get Phoebe back and find a way—despite being broke—to escape their shattered, b…

Photo by avtk / stock.adobe.comTwo sisters, one childhood, two versions—and a green sweater. In Anna Voltaggio’s “Lucilla,” the lives of two sisters trace corresponding arcs from childhood to adul…

J. Williams / Unsplash.comIn 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 belonging…

Photo by Datingscout on UnsplashPersonal Identity Number is a coming-of-age novel about a Macedonian-Cypriot girl in a dysfunctional family in post-Yugoslav and newly formed Macedonia. Seeking to…

Photo by Ella MonizOn 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, California,…

Epic Photos / Adobe StockAboard 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 this time would come…

By admirdervisevi - stock.adobe.comAndrás 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 criticism. His firs…

Photo 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 protagoni…

Photo by Chris Ensminger / Unsplash Wolf Food (prologue) by Marina and Sergey Dyachenkotranslated by Katie Kassam In this prologue to a science-fiction novella, Во…

Photo 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 the tamales.…

Sugar 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, vil…

Photo 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 Canelo—the c…

Photo 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 expresses her wi…

Photo 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 from the Par…

Photo 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 story ex…

Photo 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 Africa. “Thi…

Homa, The Tree of Zaqqum (2012) / Wikipedia The following satirical column first appeared in Persian on Afghanistan International. The Taliban have faced censure from Twitt…

Drawing 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—beca…

Cimetière 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 white li…

Photo 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. Mer…

Photo 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!” Parvati, a you…

Photo 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 throughout the day…

Photo 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 woman. Th…

Photo by Eric TERRADE / Unsplash A Sri Lankan village’s sole film critic tells the story of Gamini: “My generation might be the last to remember the Sri Lankan movie maniacs like him. So, I must…

Photo by hdur / Flickr Prohibitions to Cristina Peri Rossi, for the structure It’s difficult sometimes, but we have learned. We make acts of contrition each night with litu…