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. 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 since, which h…
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…