New York. Viking. 2022. 403 pages.
BOOKER PRIZE–NOMINATED Glory traces the tragic descent into violent despotism of democratic, newly free Zimbabwe (alias Jidada). This power…
FICTION
London. Picador. 2022. 336, 384, and 688 pages. SHIMON ADAF’S Lost Detective Trilogy embodies many worlds, attitudes, genres, and voices. Like Walt Whitman and Bob Dylan, it contains…
Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2022. 328 pages. WELL BEFORE THE current Russian invasion provided a global spotlight on Ukraine, contemporary Ukrainian writers were forging their own literary t…
New York. Doubleday. 2022. 288 pages. ONE WOULD HARDLY expect a book that is wholly preoccupied with death to be full of energy and vibrant imagery, but that is just one way that Ayan…
Brooklyn. Restless Books. 2022. 224 pages. “HOME” CAN BE hard to pin down when you’re uprooted from two continents. Family, friendships, and even one’s own identity scatter like the w…
New York. Gaudy Boy. 2022. 296 pages. FROM A STONE house in a tiny village at the edge of the Caspian Sea to the close quarters of a two-room Soviet apartment in the urban landscape o…
New York. World Editions. 2022. 268 pages. STINE PILGAARD’S SLIM novel digs into the psyche of a young woman who finds herself displaced into a remote corner of her native Denmark whe…
St. Paul, Minnesota. River Boat Books. 2020. 458 pages. TO DISTINGUISH THEIR art from that of the crowds of writers publishing today, many authors wander off well-trodden paths to exp…
Eugene, Oregon. Resource. 2022. 221 pages. THIS IS A TOUCHING book, a moving gift when one is sorely needed. Old Dog is the life story of a dog and also a meditation…
London. World Editions. 2021. 288 pages. THERE ARE PLACES we feel drawn to without knowing why—landscapes that beckon, cityscapes that call. For some people, it’s a travel destination…
Hangzhou. China. Zhejiang Literature & Art Publishing House. 2022. 559 pages. WANG JIANG NAN (Memories of Jiang Nan) is claimed by Wang Xufeng, the laureate of t…
New York. Dottir Press. 2022. 264 pages. QUAKE, THE FIRST of Icelandic author Auður Jónsdóttir’s novels to be translated into English, is an absorbing and disquieting journey…
New York. Bellevue Literary Press. 2022. 208 pages. THE NINE BLISTERING, sometimes fantastical short stories in exiled Iranian writer Shahriar Mandanipour’s first collection to appear…
Boston. Mariner Books. 2022. 400 pages. MAI AL-NAKIB’S debut novel, An Unlasting Home, circles around the complicated family legacy of her main character, Sara, an academic w…
New York. Ballantine Books. 2022. 319 pages. ISABEL ALLENDE OPENS her novel Violeta with a quote from Mary Oliver: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and…
New York. Riverhead Books. 2022. 192 pages. MOHSIN HAMID’S The Last White Man “spent two decades in gestation.” Written in response to Hamid’s experiences after the attacks o…
New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 2021. 226 pages. TOM MCCARTHY’S FIFTH novel can be seen as a sequel to his 2015 novel, Satin Island. The narrative of the new book is driven from t…
Lima. Seix Barral. 2021. 357 pages. A PROLIFIC FICTION writer, Karina Pacheco Medrano (b. 1969, Cuzco, Peru) is an important name in present-day Peruvian letters. The author of acclai…
Paris. Philippe Rey. 2021. 448 pages. THE WINNER OF the 2021 Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, is dedicated to Yambo Ouologuem (1940–2017), the Malian writer wh…
Oakland. Transit Books. 2021. 120 pages. MARIANA DIMÓPULOS’S NEW novel, set in her native Buenos Aires, prods the reader to consider what it means to be a woman. The story opens with…
Tel Aviv. Zion. 2021. 434 pages. WHEN ZION’S FICTION was published in 2018, that groundbreaking anthology of Israeli speculative fiction in English was part of a wave of spec…
Cologne. Kiepenheuer & Witsch. 2021. 224 pages. CHRISTIAN KRACHT’S EUROTRASH features the same narrator from his 1995 debut novel, Faserland, and in fac…
Taipei. Rye Field. 2020. 315 pages. WANG ANYI IS one of China’s major contemporary novelists. Her novels span a wide range of themes, with the most notable being depicting the ordinar…
New York. Europa. 2021. 176 pages. TRUST, DOMENICO STARNONE’S sleek novel of confidentiality and incipient blackmail, traces the lifelong consequences of the conflict of wills between…
Asheville, North Carolina. Orison Books. 2022. 188 pages. THIS STORY COLLECTION, Christopher Linforth’s third, powerfully probes the pain of those scarred by the Croat/Bosnian Serb Wa…