Breaking up is never easy, but when you suspect your partner of murder, it becomes a safety issue. In Riku Onda’s atmospheric novel "Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight", a couple spends one last night together, each determined to get... Read More

The comics anthology "Voices That Count" features nine stories that illuminate the challenges of being a woman in today’s world. This is an English translation of a Spanish publication. While the women involved in writing and drawing... Read More

Kim Hyun’s collection "Glory Hole" exists in a liminal space, defying neat categorization. It’s a mix of poetry and prose that blurs the lines between stories and essays. The moment a form or pattern emerges, the pieces shift.... Read More

Jacqueline Harpman’s "I Who Have Never Known Men" is a brilliant, spare science fiction novel in which a curious girl asks what remains after everything has been stripped away. In the beginning, the girl is caged with thirty-nine women... Read More

The wounds of a friend group break open following a chance discovery in Valerie Perrin’s gripping novel "Three". When they were children, it seemed that Adrien, Nina, and Etienne would always be inseparable. Those outside of their trio... Read More

A wronged, bitter young man welcomes his fate in Natalia García Freire’s novel "This World Does Not Belong to Us". Lucas was just a child when his father sold him to another farmer as a laborer. Years later, Lucas returns, full of... Read More

In Li Kotomi’s empathetic novel "Solo Dance", a young woman struggles to find her place in a world that is hostile to her sexual identity. Norie’s early years in Taiwan were difficult. Known then as Yingmei, she felt early on that... Read More

Cobbling together the story of a place from local lore, fairy tale remnants, and natural memories, Irene Solà’s novel "When I Sing, Mountains Dance" is intoxicating. Homesteads dot a mountain high in the Pyrenees, climbing up to a... Read More