In Jenny Lund Madsen’s novel "Thirty Days of Darkness", a misanthropic author is embroiled in a murder mystery. Hannah’s books are cerebral, acclaimed by critics—and read by almost no one. After making a rash, very public promise... Read More

In Jente Posthuma’s bittersweet novel What I’d Rather Not Think About, a woman who is bereft after her twin brother’s suicide searches to understand his mental illness. The fraternal twins at the center of the story have peculiar... Read More

In Gerda Blees’s novel "We Are Light", a woman’s quiet, bizarre death exposes the tragic gap between ethics and legality. The leader of the Sound & Love Commune, Melodie manipulates loyalty and obedience from her small group of... Read More

A woman returns to her childhood haunts in Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s sensual, earthy novel "To the Forest". Decamping their pandemic-shuttered city, a family retreats to a blue cottage in the woods—a place bound by a stream, a... Read More

The fates of a girl who loves the stars, a real estate agent, an envoy for the king, and a taxidermist are plied by the goddess of love in Antoine Laurain’s scintillating, era-crossing romance novel "An Astronomer in Love". Venus does... Read More

Itamar Vieira Junior’s novel "Crooked Plow" is a work of magical realism in which sisters fight to survive and improve conditions on the land they love. As children in Brazil, Bibiana and Belonísia discover their grandmother’s... Read More

"Grey Bees" is an affecting novel in which an apolitical, impassive beekeeper’s life is upended by war, despite his best efforts to remain neutral.  Russia is hungry for Ukrainian lands, but the people of Little Starhorodivka, in the... Read More

In Burhan Sönmez’s literary novel "Stone and Shadow", an Istanbul cemetery is the site of loves lost, recast, and reunited. In the 1930s, a traveling flutist introduces an orphaned street musician, Avdo, to a gravestone carver. Avdo... Read More