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…
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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… -
Little, Brown and Company. 2025. 192 pages.Souvankham Thammavongsa published her first book of poetry in Canada more than twenty years ago and has been winning literary awards ever si… -
Printim. 2025. 127 pages.Nara Vidal’s third novel and first English translation, Pure, is a grim read. Set in the 1930s in the invented Brazilian city of Santa Graça, it open… -
Europa Editions. 2025. 160 pages.Despite being only twenty-four years old when her award-winning debut novel, Les guerres précieuses, was published in France, it is clear tha… -
Hogarth. 2025. 651 pages.Fox’s plot follows a structure familiar to mystery readers: a body is found; there’s an investigation to determine the victim’s iden… -
Riverhead Books. 2025. 224 pages.Claire-Louise Bennett is back, and she’s not pulling punches. In Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, Bennett’s third novel after Pond (2015)… -
Graywolf Press. 2025. 272 pages.This is not so much a review of Falsa guerra by Cuban author Carlos Manuel Álvarez as it is of False War, the English translation cre… -
Algonquin Books. 2025. 208 pages.In Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung tells interconnected ghost stories that oscillate between chilling horror and fairy tale,… -
Penguin Press. 2025. 304 pages.Thomas Pynchon has broken his twelve-year quiet with a new detective novel in Shadow Ticket. As with his more recent works, it is a more access… -
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2025. 176 pages.The Ballad of the Last Guest is the most recent English-language translation of Nobel laureate Peter Handke. It sees an at-first… -
Trans. M. A. Salvadon. Charlottesville. University of Virginia Press. 2024. 216 pages.Évelyne Trouillot’s Désirée Congo is bursting with color. Set in revolutionary St. Domin… -
Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2025. 180 pages.Rarely does reality distort or disorient like it does when one faces a serious illness. To experience uncontrollable changes in a body, or to obse… -
Charlottesville, Virginia. Creature Publishing. 2025. 358 pages.We all have our personal definitions of “happiness.” For many, it is bound up with our relationships, or our careers, o… -
New York. Knopf. 2025. 432 pages.The Antidote doesn’t provide a historical remedy. Instead, it’s an ambitious revisionist western set in the fictional Nebraska town of Uz in… -
Madrid. Alfaguara. 2025. 296 pages.An asteroid impact, a father who lives in a virtual world as a connectome, and memories that can spread like contagions—these are just a few of the… -
South Portland, Maine. Sandorf Passage. 2025. 183 pages.Having won both the European Union Prize for Literature and Croatia’s Vladimir Nazor Award–Literature in 2020 for a short-story… -
Paris. Michel Lafon. 2024. 448 pages.The author, a former police detective, is known in France for his crime fiction. This is his first historical novel. It is ostensibly about the Wi… -
Tunis. Éditions Elyzad. 2024. 160 pages.What do tigers have to do with stars that form scintillating necklaces of heavenly bodies in the Central Asian sky or with the nightly illumina…