An enticing visitor spells doom—or a new beginning—for a distinguished but troubled family line in Marie Hélène Poitras’s novel "Sing, Nightingale". The Berthoumieux men have been caught in an endless cycle of control, lust,... Read More

Stênio Gardel’s slim novel "The Words That Remain" includes fragments of sentences, memories, and moments, recounted by an aging, illiterate gay man whose struggle for self-acceptance leads him from self-hatred to finding a chosen... Read More

In the daring, imaginative short stories of Asja Bakić’s "Sweetlust", strong-minded women fight for survival and search for meaning in disturbing dystopian worlds. Set in the Balkans and mostly in the near future, these stories... Read More

Ahmed Taibaoui’s literary novel "The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody" is about the crime and poverty-ridden underside of Algeria. The novel is split into two parts. Its first half follows an unnamed, impoverished, reclusive man, Mr.... Read More

In Astrid Roemer’s novel On a Woman’s Madness, a Black woman struggles to find happiness in a world designed to push her down. Noenka, already a misfit because of her race and family history, becomes a true outcast when she leaves... Read More

In Andrée A. Michaud’s compelling novel "Trembling River", a woman returns to her hometown after thirty years, facing the ghosts of her childhood and exorcising her guilt. Marnie returns to Rivière-aux-Tremble for her father’s... Read More

An unhappy housewife learns to cope with loss and trauma in Maki Kashimada’s novel "Love at Six Thousand Degrees". One day, for no apparent reason, a woman leaves her child at the neighbor’s and runs away. Her morbid fascination with... Read More

In Bachtyar Ali’s novel "The Last Pomegranate Tree", a man’s search for truth leads to deep revelations. After more than two decades in prison, Muzafar has all but been forgotten. Only his old friend Yaqub knows he’s alive, and... Read More