André Alexis Days by Moonlight Coach House Books  From the winner of a 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize, Days by Moonlight offers an unflinching account of the in…

Jokha Alharthi Celestial Bodies Trans. Marilyn Booth Sandstone Press Celestial Bodies is the story of three sisters whose lives stretch across a period of great…

Rae Armantrout Wobble Wesleyan University Press Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and California native Rae Armantrout’s provocative collection of poetry, Wobble, was a…

100 Great Indian Poems Ed. Abhay K. Bloomsbury Abhay K., a poet whose work has been published and translated into over thirty different languages, curates a literary tour of cultural value…

AhilanThen There Were No WitnessesTrans. Geetha SukumaranMawenzi HouseThe Tamil poetry of Sri Lanka is a blend of past and present, telling of the cruelties and splendors of modernity and his…

Shaheen AkhtarThe SearchTrans. Ella DuttaZubaanAwarded the Prothom Alo literary prize in 2004, this novel of the struggles, traumas, and survival of Bangladeshi women asks di…

Nathacha AppanahWaiting for TomorrowTrans. Geoffrey StrachanGraywolf PressWhile Anita waits for her husband to get out of prison, she reexamines the idyllic marriage they used to lead in sout…

Kazim AliInquisitionWesleyan University PressKazim Ali’s collection of eclectic poems examines the many facets of identity expected to arise during such a reflective eponymous activity. Both…

Guido Maria Brera & Edoardo NesiEverything Is Broken Up and DancesTrans. Antony ShugaarOther PressBrera, an investment banker, and Nesi, a former business owner turned no…

Rana Abdulfattah Tiger and Clay: Syria FragmentsPalewell Press Tiger and Clay: Syria Fragments combines poetry and prose to tell the story of Rana Abdulfat…

Tamim Al-BarghoutiIn Jerusalem and Other PoemsTrans. Radwa AshourInterlink BooksA Palestinian-Egyptian poet whose readings have drawn crowds by the thousands and filled the screens of Tahrir…

David BergenStrangerThe Overlook PressCanadian writer David Bergen’s Stranger follows a Guatemalan woman who carves a path to the United States through a hostile wor…

Diane GlancyThe Collector of Bodies: Concern for Syria and the Middle EastResourceA volume that can be read as an expansion of The World Is One Place (see below…

Alfred H. Mendes: Short Stories, Articles and LettersEd. Michèle LevyThe University of the West Indies PressThis volume provides a crucial glimpse into the literary development of o…

Best European Fiction 2017Ed. Nathaniel DavisDalkey Archive PressPrefaced by an explanatory essay by Eileen Battersby, Best European Fiction 2017 offers readers a one-stop tour of co…

Marjorie AgosínThe White Islands / Las Islas BlancasTrans. Jacqueline NanfitoSwan Isle Press This bilingual edition of verse is a triumph of the imagination as Chilean-born Marjorie Agos…

João AlminoEnigmas of SpringTrans. Rhett McNeilDalkey Archive PressEnigmas of Spring follows a young Brazilian man’s journey from his home to Spain where his restlessness and lack of…

Aharon AppelfeldAdam and ThomasTrans. Jeffrey M. Green. Illus. Philippe DumasSeven Stories PressTwo nine-year-old Jewish boys survive alone in the forest during the harsh last winter of…

Raif Badawi1,000 Lashes: Because I Say What I ThinkTrans. Ahmed Danny RamadanGreystone BooksSaudi blogger Raif Badawi, winner of the 2015 PEN Pinter International Writer of Courage Award, was…

Pedro Carmona-AlvarezThe Weather Changed, Summer Came and So OnDiane Oatley, tr.Seagull BooksThis tragic novel follows the traumas and joys of a family torn apart by the death of tw…

The Distant MarvelsChantel AcevedoEuropa Editions Steeped in the history and culture of Cuba, this novel is a story within a story. Set in 1963, during the danger of Hur…

Learning CyrillicDavid Albahari. Ellen Elias-Bursac, tr.Dalkey ArchiveDavid Albahari’s collection of twenty short stories detailing the experience of living as an immigrant a…

Be the First to Like ThisColin Waters, ed. Vagabond VoicesAn eclectic collection of the zany and wonderful, Be the First to Like This explores the diverse array…

Kei Erni Aladjai. Nurhayat Indriyatno Mohamed, tr.DalangThe lives of two people from opposing backgrounds on the Indonesian island of Kei intertwine during the viole…

A Country in MindSaskia BeudelUWA PublishingThe Australian Outback is depicted with such gorgeous language in Beudel’s book that it almost feels as though you’re seeing it wi…