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The Con Company

by Xenia Dunford

A sharp and intricate thriller, "The Con Company" considers ambition against a backdrop of scheming. Set in contemporary Budapest, Gábor Domokos’s vivid thriller "The Con Company" concerns a heist involving a forged manuscript and a... Read More

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Mount Verity

by Bella Moses

In Therese Bohman’s coming-of-age novel "Mount Verity", a childhood tragedy alters the trajectory of an artist’s life. On Easter Eve in 1989, Hannah’s older brother Erik disappears during a midnight trip to a mountain with a mythic... Read More

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Who Killed Bambi?

by Rebecca Foster

Monika Fagerholm’s hard-hitting experimental novel is about the aftereffects of gang rape. During a spring break party, Nathan and three other teenage boys restrained their classmate, Sascha, in the basement and raped her. A decade... Read More

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City Like Water

by Mike Good

In Dorothy Tse’s striking, surreal novella "City Like Water", a person navigates a contorted reality in a nameless city. An unnamed narrator experiences displacement, both in memory and space. They recall the top bunk they once slept... Read More

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Mariam, It's Arwa

by Karen Rigby

A fateful lesbian relationship grounds Mariam, It’s Arwa, Areej Gamal’s revealing historical novel about sustenance amid grief. Sent to live with her grandmother in Egypt, Mariam aches to be known. Then, in a metro station amid... Read More

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