Evanston, Illinois. Curbstone Books. 2024. 256 pages.Bunkong Tuon’s debut novel tells the coming-of-age story of a Cambodian American writer, Samnang Sok, written in the first person.…
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Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2025. 272 pages.In The Dissenters, the first of Youssef Rakha’s (b. 1976) novels written in English, the story begins with…
McAllen, Texas. FlowerSong Press. 2024. 294 pages.From its title, Putinoika, the fourth novel by Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi, delivers some of the most urgent literature imaginable.…
Windsor, Ontario. Biblioasis. 2024. 291 pages.Kevin Lambert’s celebrated novel May Our Joy Endure is a “chant” that crescendos as the writer explores the widening chasm betwe…
San Francisco. Two Lines Press. 2024. 144 pages.Feelings can never be fully transmitted through language, but stories try. With great attention to how words work with and against one…
New York. Archipelago. 2024. 211 pages.Tomás González (b. 1950, Medellín) may not come immediately to mind if one is asked to name the best contemporary fiction writers from Colombia.…
Montreal. Mémoire d’encrier. 2024. 303 pages.With time, the greatest of bards, alone able to unveil how this text—literally without a full stop—will conclude, Je remercie la nuit…
Oakville, Ontario. Mosaic Press. 2024. 158 pages.The landscape of Forgotten Exiles is diversely and richly populated: whether set in the Caribbean, South Ame…
Berkeley, California. Stone Bridge Press. 2025. 208 pages.In the thirty-four stories in A Hundred Years and a Day, Tomoka Shibasaki paints a piecemeal portrait of her Japanes…
Paris. Gallimard. 2024. 416 pages.The new novel by the author of Meursault, contre-enquête (2014; see WLT, March 2015, 56) and Zabor ou les psaumes (2017; see WLT,…
New York. Oxford University Press. 2024. 230 pages.In 2004 Oxford University Press published Paris Tales, edited and translated by Helen Constantine, a distinguished…
New York. Europa Editions. 2025. 208 pages.Quick. Make an immediate armchair reservation for Robert Seethaler’s joyful celebration in The Café with No Name, translat…
New York. Riverhead Books. 2024. 276 pages.In Little Rot, Akwaeke Emezi continues their investigation into often-overlooked communities by focusing on the un…
Rochester, New York. Open Letter Books. 2025. 256 pages.Can Xue is a prolific writer of stories, publishing several hundred over the past forty years. Her work is reminiscent of Kafka…
New York. New Directions. 2024. 160 pages.Danish author Solvej Balle (b. 1962) commences a seven-volume novel surveying time through the lens of alluring language. Here in Bo…
New York. Bloomsbury. 2025. 144 pages.All eight stories that comprise this captivating, wise, and uncanny collection adopt first-person narrators. These individual voices tend to spea…
New York. Knopf. 2025. 416 pages.The literary world is abuzz with excitement because award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel is finally here. In Dream Count…
New York. New York Review Books. 2024. 224 pages.What is a walled enclosure or a rhyming couplet capable of doing? Each shape or pattern, social or literary, lays claim to a limited range of poten…
London. Istros Books. 2024. 360 pages.Andrea Tompa is a Transylvanian Hungarian writer living in Budapest whose novels often deal with Transylvanian themes and with the history of the…
Madison, Wisconsin. Ji Wai Books. 2024. 666 pages.To Tune the Beast isn’t a debut speculative fiction novel. It’s a polemic. A gentle raging at what is not in balance set ami…
New York. Dutton. 2024. 512 pages.Hailed by the critics as the “king of Danish crime fiction,” a title he despises, Jussi Adler-Olsen earned an international reputation through his mo…
Paris. Lattès. 2024. 306 pages.Ces soleils ardents (These fiery suns) is the impressive first novel by a twenty-two-year-old writer who grew up in Côte d’Ivo…
New York. MCD. 2024. 464 pages.A decade ago Jeff VanderMeer published Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance, three novels telling one story about a strip…
New York. Archipelago Books. 2024. 208 pages.The title reverberates through each of the seven electrifying—mostly brief and one novella-length—selections in Maylis de Kerangal’s linke…
Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2024. 360 pages.Rodrigo Fresán is skeptical about the merits of fiction featuring famed, long-dead authors. In a previous novel, his narrator describ…