Coach House Books. 2025. 176 pages.An artist with a mark on the iris of one eye appears in Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s previous novel, To the Forest, whose narrator observes th…
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Lake Union. 2025. 379 pages.Simon Tolkien trained as an attorney and practiced law before he turned to the profession that made his grandfather famous. Thanks to his background in leg… -
Gallimard. 2025. 288 pages.In La nuit au cœur, Nathacha Appanah confronts the epidemic of femicides in France through the prism of three emblematic cases, am… -
Graywolf Press. 2025. 240 pages.Economists refer to the 1980s as Latin America’s “Lost Decade.” Uncontrolled foreign debt and inflation depressed incomes, leading to the region’s wors… -
Archipelago Books. 2025. 418 pages.To watch Alain Resnais’s 1961 film Last Year in Marienbad in real time is to understand half of it. Pause the reel anywhere and observe eve… -
Comma Press. 2026. 256 pages.The pen is the ark of humanity, bearing truths that even the fiercest tyrants cannot drown. The Palestinian Nakba of 1948 uprooted over 750,000 innocent P… -
Sandorf Passage. 2025. 239 pages.Last spring, as I pursued my MFA in literary translation at Boston University, Nicholas Glastonbury was invited to give a guest lecture in BU’s long-r… -
Homeward Books. 2026. 370 pages.Riffing on Francis Marion Crawford’s gothic fantasy The Witch of Prague (1891), J. M. Sidorova’s transgeneric novel (e.g., history, political… -
Alfaguara. 2025. 233 pages.Considered one of Argentina’s leading intellectuals, Guillermo Saccomanno is a seasoned writer who has garnered many literary prizes for his novels and essa… -
Trans. David Colmer. Penguin Books. 2025. 240 pages.As the old joke goes, you’re not paranoid if there is really someone out to get you. In fact, you can rarely spend a day these days… -
Debolsillo. 2025. 555 pages.Edgardo Rivera Martínez (1933–2018) is an important figure in the development of the contemporary short story in Peruvian and Latin American letters. With… -
Gallimard. 2025. 432 pages.This novel concludes the author’s trilogy, Le pays des autres, based on her family history in Morocco and France since the end of the Second World War (for… -
Bloomsbury. 2025. 240 pages.Most of the protagonists in Ayşegül Savaş’s new story collection, Long Distance, are women who have freshly arrived in a European city, and Savaş… -
World Editions. 2025. 118 pages.Chilean author Catalina Infante Beovic and translator of her work into English, Michelle Mirabella, are certainly no strangers to readers of World… -
Random House. 2025. 272 pages.Salman Rushdie has authored fifteen novels in his long literary career spanning more than five decades. His first collection of short stories was Eas… -
New Directions. 2026. 144 pages.It’s pretty much the present, and your dependable critic K. here is writing this review of an intriguing short novel, written in lyrical, magnificently… -
Penguin Books. 2025. 208 pages.Hunting in America, by Israeli writer Tehila Hakimi, is a slim, sparce novel that, within its muted, wintry setting and its plainspoke… -
Doubleday. 2025. 352 pages.Maria Reva’s satiric novel Endling, a recently listed candidate for the Booker Prize, provides a strikingly original overview of the war in Ukraine… -
Cornerstone Press. 2025. 202 pages.There are eleven short stories in Diane Josefowicz’s third book of fiction—with much to say about thematic interfaces, characters that seem to reapp… -
HarperVia. 2025. 288 pages.Fumio Yamamoto’s understated stories are a reminder that the English-speaking world is only just beginning to encounter the diverse range of feminist litera… -
Riverhead Books. 2025. 224 pages.Whereas much of Helen Oyeyemi’s past fiction has engaged with fairy tales, A New New Me takes on another genre: the mystery novel. Oyeyemi br… -
Fitzcarraldo Editions. 2025. 166 pages.A variety of tensions animate this novel, which has recently been placed on the Booker Prize longlist: the tension between past and present; bet… -
Other Press. 2025. 144 pages.Though fictitious, Attacking Earth and Sun reads like personal memoirs from the early days of France’s occupation of Algeria during the mid-ninet… -
Ohio University Press. 2025. 194 pages.Niq Mhlongo’s short-story collection For You, I’d Steal a Goat has joined the Ohio University Press African Modern Writing series. The… -
Archipelago. 2025. 224 pages.In Emmelie Prophète’s newly translated novel, Cécé, the residents of the Cité of Divine Power neighborhood in Port-au-Prince are all trying to escape. For…