A young person invites Death to share her wisdom in Salena Godden’s ethereal novel "Mrs. Death Misses Death". Wolf is a writer trying to write about what they have known since they were nine: Death. Indeed, after impulse buying an... Read More

Antoine Laurain’s experimental novel "Red Is My Heart" is an artful articulation of the discombobulation that follows when a relationship is severed without warning. Written as letters sent into the ether, to a party who does not wish... Read More

Chantal James’s novel "None but the Righteous" follows a man’s lifelong search of truth and meaning. When he’s a teenager, Ham, a foster child who was taken in by sophisticated Pearl and her son, Wally, meets a traveler, Mayfly. Of... Read More

In Anna Quon’s novel "Where the Silver River Ends", travels abroad lead to incredible self-discoveries. Joan, Canadian and of Chinese heritage, works as an English teacher in Budapest. Her friend Edna’s dying wish is that she deliver... Read More

Set in a futuristic, dystopian world reshaped by climate change, Yoko Tawada’s "Scattered All Over the Earth" celebrates cross-cultural, crosslinguistic friendships. An unnamed country, presumably Japan, has disappeared. Knut, a Danish... Read More

A piercing novel about death, grief, and the lengths people will go to escape them, Ella Baxter’s "New Animal" is not for the faint of heart. Amelia, a cosmetic mortician with her family’s mortuary business, is a clinical woman who... Read More

A young man’s journey of self-discovery leads him to the last place he ever expected in Ben Okri’s novel "Astonishing the Gods". Determined to find out why his people are invisible to everyone but themselves, an unnamed young man... Read More

James Broderick’s "The Last Words of James Joyce" mixes murder into an irreverent campus satire. This eccentric story is led by a former PhD student who moonlights as a pornographic script writer, and who believes that he’s found one... Read More