In Mónica Ojeda’s sinuous novel "Jawbone", six wealthy private school girls form a dangerous clique. The six girls share obsessions with Instagram, crocodiles, La Llorona, Slender Man, and the cropped chic of... Read More

Concepts of ethnicity, intimacy, and identity are woven into Jessica Gaitán Johannesson’s quirky, contemplative novel "How We Are Translated". Twenty-four-year-old Kristin is a Swedish native living in Scotland. Her partner, Ciaran,... Read More

In C. A. Davids’s novel "How to Be a Revolutionary", two people from opposite ends of the world connect and are separated by political and personal secrets. Beth, a South African haunted by her turbulent youth and failing marriage,... Read More

In Fiona Snyckers’s dark and riveting novel "Lacuna", a young South African woman struggles in the aftermath of a gang rape. Lucy Lurie’s brutal assault is a personal tragedy and the perceived pivotal event of John Coetzee’s novel... Read More

Sam and Eleanor are in love. Eleanor cannot sleep. Sam has four outstanding invoices. They live in Brooklyn, where in winter, the snow falls with such ferocity that it creates mountain ranges. The president makes alarming claims about... Read More

"Steel" is an intimate coming-of-age story set in a gritty northern Minnesota mining town in the 1920s. The town, made up of poor immigrant families—mainly Italians, Croatians, and Scandinavians—has as its sustenance the world’s... Read More

A man learns, too late, the price of colonial ambition in Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s novel "The History of Man". From a young age, Emil was encouraged to become “a man of history,” a man who could further the aspirations of empire and... Read More

Fade Away, or The Artist is a literary novel about ennui, loneliness, and finding one’s place in the world. In Jeremy Rider’s literary novel Fade Away, or The Artist, a young man navigates new adulthood. Jimmy, who grew up in a... Read More