Oakland, California. PM Press. 2021. 320 pages.
NAZARÉ IS AN incantation, an allegory, and a prophecy. With imaginative and ornate linguistic skills, and a brutal naturalism…
FICTION
New Delhi. Fourth Estate. 2021. 185 pages. IN HER FIRST collection of fiction, The House Next to the Factory, Sonal Kohli brings us very close to her characters. They are so…
London. Scribe. 2021. 323 pages. FROM THE FIRST PAGE of this beguilingly strange, darkly comic novel, we are plunged into a destabilized realm of fiction where the laws of rationalit…
Montreal. Drawn & Quarterly. 2021. 400 pages. MORE A PHANTASMAGORIC dreamscape than a straightforward narrative graphic novel, Night Bus contains eleven stories, th…
Oakland, California. Transit. 2021. 157 pages. THE THEMES OF exile, immigration, and displacement have been recurrent in the literature of the Southern Cone since the region’s confli…
Trocy-en-Multien, France. Éditions Conférence. 2020. 496 pages. ZÉRO AVANT JÉSUS-CHRIST is the second published book by French author Jean Chavot, following a…
New York. Doubleday. 2021. 288 pages. SILENT WINDS, DRY SEAS is one of the first novels by a Mauritian author to be originally published in the United States. Deeply im…
Johannesburg. Picador Africa. 2021. 310 pages. THE VILLAGE THAT sleeps is South Africa in the afterlives of apartheid, thought-provokingly awoken by Sindiwe Magona’s unflinching indi…
New York. Hogarth. 2021. 304 pages. IN 2017, ANUK ARUDPRAGASAM, a virtual unknown in the literary world, beat a former Booker winner and other senior novelists to the DSC Prize for S…
New York. Riverhead Books. 2021. 240 pages. SONGS FOR THE FLAMES is Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s seventh book published in English and his second collection of short stories.…
Richmond, Virginia. Valancourt. 2022. 328 pages. I DESCRIBED VALANCOURT founders James Jenkins and Ryan Cagle’s first volume of The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories a…
Paris. Editions Albin Michel. 2021. 240 pages. “AH, LOOK AT all the lonely people!” The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” refrain captures the essence of Senegalese writer Fatou Diome’s…
Albuquerque. University of New Mexico Press. 2021. 64 pages. TO ENTER SY HOAHWAH’S Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride is to immerse yourself in liminality and enter th…
Calgary. Freehand Books. 2021. 306 pages. JOHN GREYEYES “only wanted a coffee in the morning and a frying pan of beans and wieners at night,” but living on the reserve, “everyon…
New York. Flatiron Books. 2021. 336 pages. IN HER THIRD novel, L.A. Weather, María Amparo Escandón presents a well-to-do Los Angeles family in a transformational year. The b…
De Gordyk, The Netherlands. Bornmeer. 2021. 438 pages. IN TESTAMINT FAN DE SIEL (Testament of the soul), the eighty-five-year-old novelist Hylke Speerstra creates two c…
Singapore. Kitaab. 2020. 245 pages. THE BEST ASIAN Short Stories 2020 is a volume showcasing the vitality and range of contemporary Asian writers. The…
Handforth, UK. Honford Star. 2021. 294 pages. HORROR FILMS FROM East Asia (especially South Korea and Japan) have impacted the cinematic genre for decades and made big business throu…
New York. New Directions. 2021. 91 pages. HUNGARIAN AUTHOR László Krasznahorkai is gifted with seductive powers that force us to go wherever he goes; we simply cannot negate him. In…
Sheffield, UK. And Other Stories. 2021. 272 pages. THIS COLLECTION BRINGS together three superb novellas by Yuri Herrera that had been previously published separately in English…
New York. Common Era. 2020. 148 pages. CAN XUE’S Purple Perilla includes three short stories that immerse readers in a world where reality and absurdity collide. In “An…
New York. Penguin. 2021. 666 pages. “FIRSTLY THERE WAS no plot, and secondly there was no sequence of events, and no coherence, everything came at you higgledy-piggledy.” So Karl Ove…
Cairo. Hoopoe. 2021. 333 pages. IN HERE IS A BODY, Basma Abdel Aziz’s follow-up to her acclaimed, award-winning novel The Queue (WLT, Sept. 2016, 73), a co…
New York / London. Riverhead Books / Fitzcarraldo Editions. 2022. 992 pages. THE YEAR IS 1752 (the page, 900-or-so), and a carriage is barreling through misty Podolia, a histor…
Sheffield, UK. And Other Stories. 2020. 165 pages. THE NOVEL WRETCHEDNESS begins with a chance encounter between a cellist and a homeless young man in Malmö, Sweden. It…