Seattle. Amazon Crossing. 2024. 223 pages.
Angélica Lopes made a name for herself in Brazil as a journalist and soap opera screenwriter. She is also the author of a number of young ad…
FICTION
Madrid. Alfaguara. 2024. 322 pages. Spanish writer Sergio del Molino won the Alfaguara Novel Prize for 2024 with Los alemanes. The title refers to Germans who had been living in Camer…
Houston. Veliz. 2024. 146 pages. Late in Adriana Riva’s stirring debut novel, Ema, our narrator, arrives in her mother’s erstwhile hometown in provincial Argentina, where workers will…
New York. W. W. Norton. 2024. 272 pages. Ghostroots engages parallel worlds where one universe collapses into the other. The reader wanders the in-between, the liminal space where rea…
New York. NRYB Classics. 2025. 162 pages. And now for something completely madcap. Or, how would you feel if a shower of heavy bolts from an ancient Soviet satellite fell at thirty ya…
Madrid. Alianza. 2024. 194 pages. Drawn in by its bright fuchsia façade, Pepa walks through the doors of Pasión Nails, a manicure salon in one of her hometown’s poor neighborhoods. M…
New York. New Directions. 2024. 194 pages. After winning the 2023 National Translation Award in Prose for the English translation of Chinatown, Nguyễn An Lý returns with a translation…
Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 2024. 174 pages. In this anthology, noted Choctaw scholar Devon A. Mihesuah offers a dozen tales combining people from history and legend as well…
Brooklyn. Rossum Press. 2023. 194 pages. Shortlisted for the NIN literary award, among Serbia’s most prestigious, Milan Tripković’s postmodern mock-heroic skewers the corruption, viol…
New York. New Vessel Press. 2024. 199 pages. First published in France in 2023 and immediately nominated for the Goncourt, The Propagandist is a fist-in-your-face cautionary tale. A t…
Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press. 2024. 352 pages. Billed as a postapocalyptic dystopian noir, Mevlido’s Dreams manifests flashes of multiple genres without ever fully commi…
San Antonio, Texas. Conocimientos Press. 2024. 168 pages. In Spanish there’s a well-known saying, Pueblo chico, infierno grande (Small town, large hell), a biting statement that appli…
London. Seagull Books. 2024. 160 pages. This extraordinary novel by fêted Haitian novelist and poet Makenzy Orcel is the second of his works to be translated into English by Haitian s…
New York. World Editions. 2024. 228 pages. Dendrites marks Greek writer Kallia Papadaki’s third outing as a novelist but her first appearance in the anglophone world. Published in 201…
New York. Other Press. 2024. 352 pages. In the antiquated European tradition of Orientalist painting, the depiction of a sultan with a chained, dead, or sleeping tiger is a recurring…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024. 544 pages. The year 2026 is a tough time for forty-nine-year-old Paul Raison. As a high-ranking official in France’s Ministry of Finance, he…
New York. Penguin Press. 2024. 512 pages. The Third Realm, the third installment in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s new fiction series, is a dark mirror of the first volume of the cycle, The Mo…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2024. 464 pages. After a three-year wait, Sally Rooney’s fourth novel does not continue to explore female protagonists’ emotional struggles. Inst…
New York. Hogarth. 2024. 384 pages. Chigozie Obioma’s third novel, The Road to the Country, is a tense, evocative novel of the Biafran War (1967–70). Situated in the tradition of work…
New York. Riverside Books. 2024. 320 pages. The Empusium, by the acclaimed Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a departure from her usual wo…
New York. Hogarth. 2025. 272 pages. Han Kang, the 2024 Nobel laureate, is still overcome by the violence that laces Korea’s warring past. Her compelling writing attempts to resuscitat…
Bloomington, Indiana. Slavica. 2024. 71 pages. From the late nineteenth century onward, cotton became Central Asia’s predominant cash crop. To sustain the fields and fields of this “w…
London. Tilted Axis Press. 2024. 107 pages. To Hell with Poets fits squarely within Kazakhstan’s rural narratology. And like other countries with a strong pastoral background (or, in…
San Francisco. Two Lines Press. 2024. 120 pages. A leaf’s rustling. Branches mingling. In the distance, lightning strikes. Whispers. A felled log. A milkless breast. Dogs. Generations…
New York. Random House. 2024. 286 pages. Téa Obreht’s great new novel is, in fact, a book about war refugees. However, told in first person and set up in the near future in a city tha…