An inestimable novel of ideas, Michael Lentz’s monumental book "Schattenfroh" follows the consciousness of a trapped man as he thinks through his existence, his relationship... Read More

Violence undoes a young couple’s love in Alan Govenar’s wrenching autobiographical novel "Come Round Right". When they meet during their freshman year at Ohio State, Adriana... Read More

Anything can spark and hold a memory according to Dorothy Chan’s poetry collection "Return of the Chinese Femme". Across five sections, the poems’ speaker luxuriates in... Read More

In Frederika Amalia Finkelstein’s novel "Forgetting", an insomniac grapples with the past and the future of a world perhaps beyond saving. Alma’s grandfather did not die in... Read More

In Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s novel "Kidnapped", two boys are switched at birth, leading to unexpected consequences. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the Soviet... Read More

In N. Prabhakaran’s postmodern short story collection "Diary of a Malayali Madman", people are touched by madness and constrained by the traditions and politics of their... Read More

Dark and supernatural forces affect many lives in Alla Gorbunova’s novel It’s the End of the World, My Love. Russia is a vast, contradictory place. For all its natural... Read More

A historian investigates a decades-old murder that involves his own family in Sergio Pitol’s historical novel, "The Love Parade". While conducting research, Miguel, a... Read More

Immersed in her grief, a woman becomes unable to handle the complexities of worlds beyond her own in Sara Goudarzi’s affecting novel "The Almond in the Apricot". When her best... Read More

Reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Manon Steffan Ros’s "The Blue Book of Nebo" is an elegant, elegiac novel that tempers the enormity of nuclear Armageddon with... Read More

Mephisto’s Waltz, a collection of short fiction by the late Mexican author Sergio Pitol, creates a world of eloquent transience, shifting from Mexico to Asia then into Warsaw,... Read More

With echoes of 1984 and Brave New World, Rabasa delivers a forceful, hysterical debut that’s one for the political ages. “Outside of vague moral notions and Manichean... Read More