New York. Bellevue Literary Press. 2016. 224 pages.
Anarchy has not quite yet faded into the history books. This politico-philosophical movement, which espouses self-governing societies and opposes co…
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Dallas, Texas. Deep Vellum. 2016. 400 pages. Anti-Europeans will see this extraordinary book as a knowing critique of a spoiled, corrupt, and quarrelsome lot of countries; pro-Europeans will admire it…
Boston. Little, Brown. 2016. 320 pages. What if? What if Radovan Karadžić—the mastermind of the infamous forty-four-month Siege of Sarajevo in which 11,541 Sarajevans perished—what if Karadžić did…
New York. Minotaur Books. 2016. 406 pages. Nele Neuhaus is a best-seller in Germany and proposes to be one here. She may well succeed. It is easy to see why this is so when reading her latest book. T…
New York. The Mantle. 2016. 110 pages. Despite the significant growth of publication of African drama in the West, Botswana remains underrepresented to a large degree, perhaps even unrepresented until…
New York. New Directions. 2016. 120 pages. Several artists stand out among the many voices that a new wave of translation has made available to anglophone readers; one of these is the Lebanese writer…
New York. Tim Duggan Books. 2016. 246 pages. After seventeen-year-old Paul Utu tells his younger brother, Ajie, of his plan to visit a friend, he vanishes one afternoon in 1995. That event and its cos…
Madrid. Hispabooks. 2016. 289 pages. I remember being disconcerted and dismayed when I came across a posting on the Internet publicizing an exhibit in a museum where a stray dog had been tied up in a…
México City. Planeta. 2015. 255 pages. On November 16, 1989, the US-trained Atlacatl battalion of the Salvadoran army broke into the Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas” (uca) and murdered…
New York. Columbia University Press. 2016. 147 pages. Although the cataclysmic destruction visited upon Japan on March 11, 2011, by an earthquake of unprecedented magnitude and its attendant tsunami…
Le Bouscat, France. Finitude. 2016. 158 pages. In this short novel, an unconventional and, apparently, blissfully happy couple, as seen through the eyes of their son, dance their way through life, mos…
Brooklyn. Melville House. 2016. 217 pages. Building on an Egyptian literary dystopic tradition, Basma Abdel Aziz transforms queuing into a metaphor for the pervasive institutional and moral c…
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London. Portobello Books. 2016. 224 pages. Human Acts is a very different novel from The Vegetarian, Han Kang’s first novel recently published in English to numerous accolades, inclu…
Brooklyn, New York. Restless Books. 2015. 864 pages. Winner of Hungary’s 2006 Aegon Literary Award, this Rabelaisian saga recounts the Job-like sufferings of the apparently feckless, lovelorn, often s…
New York. Other Press. 2015 (© 2011). 384 pages. This edition is a movie tie-in re-release of the 2011 translation and features artwork on the cover with the faces of Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, and…
New York. Europa Editions. 2016. 160 pages. How do we make sense of changes in others that upset the ways we understand ourselves? This question hangs over Sergio Y., a slim novel from Brazil…
New York. SoHo Press. 2016. 208 pages. In Fuminori Nakamura’s The Gun, this master of Hitchcockian noir builds on the style and plotting that made his recent The Thief and Evil a…
New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2015. 148 pages. Thirty years after it happened, the protagonist of this haunting novel recounts how, one winter night, when he was not quite twenty-one…
Dallas, Texas. Deep Vellum. 2016. 157 pages. Seeing Red, by Chilean writer Lina Meruane, is an exemplary autobiographical novel. At a party in New York City, the main character, Lina, suffer…
Montreal. Mémoire d’encrier. 2015. 299 pages. Tout ce qu’on ne te dira pas, Mongo (Everything they won’t tell you, Mongo) is Dany Laferrière’s first new book since his induction into the Acad…
London. Glagoslav. 2015. 335 pages. Jewish Ukrainian author Margarita Khemlin’s final novel, The Investigator, was released in English translation just months before her untimely de…
Victoria, Texas. Dalkey Archive Press. 2016. 163 pages. A writer once told me that each work of fiction teaches you how to read its world. The novel A Contrived World is at once a world and n…
Brooklyn. Archipelago Books. 2016. 250 pages. Christos Ikonomou’s award-winning second collection, Something Will Happen, You’ll See, is a thoughtful glimpse into the flawed and sometimes-c…
New York. Hogarth. 2016. 192 pages. Han Kang’s The Vegetarian is a taut novel that tells the story of two sisters—Yeong-hye and In-hye—and their marriages. Told in three parts, each a novell…
New York. Europa Editions. 2016. 133 pages. The Man Who Snapped His Fingers tells the story of a colonel from the inner circle of the Iranian supreme commander who now lives in another count…