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FEATURED REVIEW

An Impossible Return
Caroline Laurent. Trans. Jeffrey Zuckerman
Offended Sensibilities
Alisa Ganieva. Trans. Carol Apollonio
Is Mother Dead
Vigdis Hjorth. Trans. Charlotte Barslund
So Distant from My Life
Monique Ilboudo. Trans. Yarri Kamara
Sojourn
Amit Chaudhuri
The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li
Cœur du Sahel
Djaïli Amadou Amal
The Dreaming: Stories
Andre Bagoo
Bolla
Pajtim Statovci. Trans. David Hackston.
The Doloriad
Missouri Williams
Rombo
Esther Kinsky. Trans. Caroline Schmidt
Asylum
Nina Shope
The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak
El tercer paraíso
Cristian Alarcón
El coleccionista de sombras
Javier Vásconez
The Thorn Puller
Hiromi Ito. Trans. Jeffery Angles
Victorious
Yishai Sarid. Trans. Yardenne Greenspan
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Akwaeke Emezi
Toño the Infallible
Evelio Rosero. Trans. Anne McLean & Victor Meadowcroft

VERSE

Krematoria III
Krzysztof Siwczyk
The Forbidden Door: The Selected Poetry of Lasse Söderberg
Lasse Söderberg. Trans. Lars Gustaf Andersson & Carolyn Forché
High Desert
André Naffis-Sahely
Sister Tongue زبان خواهر
Farnaz Fatemi
Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air
Afeefah Khazi-Syed, Aleena Shabbir, Ayse Guvenilir, Maisha M. Prome, Mariam Dogar, & Marwa Abdulhai.
Cinematic Revolutions
Patrick McGee
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
Mosab Abu Toha
Why the Assembly Disbanded
Roberto Tejada

MISCELLANEOUS

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Kate Beaton
Struggle and Mutual Aid: The Age of Worker Solidarity
Nicolas Delalande. Trans. Anthony Roberts
Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
A. J. Verdelle
Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions
Tomson Highway
Visiting the Blues: PEN America 2021 Prison Writing Awards Anthology by PEN America
PEN America

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FICTION

An Impossible Return
Caroline Laurent. Trans. Jeffrey Zuckerman

Offended Sensibilities
Alisa Ganieva. Trans. Carol Apollonio

Is Mother Dead
Vigdis Hjorth. Trans. Charlotte Barslund

So Distant from My Life
Monique Ilboudo. Trans. Yarri Kamara

Sojourn
Amit Chaudhuri

The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li

Cœur du Sahel
Djaïli Amadou Amal

The Dreaming: Stories
Andre Bagoo

Bolla
Pajtim Statovci. Trans. David Hackston.

The Doloriad
Missouri Williams

Rombo
Esther Kinsky. Trans. Caroline Schmidt

Asylum
Nina Shope

The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak

El tercer paraíso
Cristian Alarcón

El coleccionista de sombras
Javier Vásconez

The Thorn Puller
Hiromi Ito. Trans. Jeffery Angles

Victorious
Yishai Sarid. Trans. Yardenne Greenspan

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Akwaeke Emezi

Toño the Infallible
Evelio Rosero. Trans. Anne McLean & Victor Meadowcroft

VERSE

Krematoria III
Krzysztof Siwczyk

The Forbidden Door: The Selected Poetry of Lasse Söderberg
Lasse Söderberg. Trans. Lars Gustaf Andersson & Carolyn Forché

High Desert
André Naffis-Sahely

Sister Tongue زبان خواهر
Farnaz Fatemi

Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air
Afeefah Khazi-Syed, Aleena Shabbir, Ayse Guvenilir, Maisha M. Prome, Mariam Dogar, & Marwa Abdulhai.

Cinematic Revolutions
Patrick McGee

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
Mosab Abu Toha

Why the Assembly Disbanded
Roberto Tejada

MISCELLANEOUS

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Kate Beaton

Struggle and Mutual Aid: The Age of Worker Solidarity
Nicolas Delalande. Trans. Anthony Roberts

Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
A. J. Verdelle

Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions
Tomson Highway

Visiting the Blues: PEN America 2021 Prison Writing Awards Anthology by PEN America
PEN America