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…
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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…
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…
Photo by Jesse Ditmar In Take What You Need, Idra Novey’s third novel, a woman who fled her childhood in the Allegheny Mountains endures an uneasy return when her stepmother, Jean, dies. There in her…
Li Zi Shu is the author of the Taiwanese best-seller The Age of Goodbyes, now available in English translation by YZ Chin (Feminist Press, 2022). Q YZ Chin’s translation of The…
Photo by Lucy Tomasino Beacon Press published Alexandra Lytton Regalado’s second collection, Relinquenda, winner of the National Poetry Series, in 2022; it was a Featured Fall Book at Po…
Ana Ojeda’s new novel, Furor fulgor—set in a dystopian future where the government dictates that only one, hegemonic, form of language is legally acceptable—was already nearing publicati…
In Neruda on the Park, Cleyvis Natera’s debut novel, a young lawyer seeks a new path after being fired from a top law firm while her mother schemes to stop a development project in their…
Mexican author Mónica Lavín’s first book available in English, Meaty Pleasures, is a collection of twelve stories translated by D. P. Snyder and edited by Michelle Rosen (2021). Snyder w…
Han river in Seoul We asked writers and translators two questions: What is the book, available in English, that best evokes Seoul? What is a favorite Seoul bookstore? Here are their answers.…
In Olga Dies Dreaming (2022), Xochitl Gonzalez’s best-selling debut novel, Hurricane Maria reunites a long-absent mother with her two adult children, a New York City wedding planner and…
