In Vigdis Hjorth’s taut, emotive novella "Repetition", a Norwegian woman recalls her troubled teenage years and early sexual experiences. While attending a University of Oslo symphony concert, the anonymous narrator observes a tense... Read More

In Keila Vall de la Ville’s incisive novel "Minerva", an aspiring Venezuelan dancer contemplates her artistic future and unusual family background. Minerva is raised in an unconventional manner: by her mother and two fathers in... Read More

A love-resistant career woman flirts with a change of heart in the satirical novel "Vesper". New York’s contemporary dating scene features into Evan Marks’s humorous novel "Vesper", in which a young woman’s cavalier expectations of... Read More

An aspiring activist has rude awakenings during his efforts to effect change in the revealing coming-of-age novel "Proles". In Barry Bergman’s thoughtful bildungsroman "Proles", an idealistic young man endures industrial labor in 1970s... Read More

Poignant and ethereal, the fantasy novel "Mancala Moon" follows a man’s quest for intergenerational understanding in the mysterious woods. With hints of magical realism, Asa Bowers’s fantasy novel "Mancala Moon" follows a young man... Read More

The interlinked short stories of Urszula Honek’s unapologetically stark novella "White Nights" focus on ordinary lives that are subject to savage turns of fate. There are beautiful days in Binarowa, Poland, where the sky goes aflame... Read More

A tale of family discord set in the context of centuries of Serbian upheavals, Gail Sidonie Šobat’s magic-infused feminist novel "Songs From This and That Country" is wrenching yet hopeful. In the fourteenth century, Sudbina, the... Read More

Across a span of decades, people either evade or take risks when it comes to the loves and lives they desire in the affecting novel "Scarlet Birthright", about a determined family’s efforts to forgive. Scarlet Ibis James’s haunting... Read More