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…