Personal memoir, travelogue, and history combine in María Sonia Cristoff’s "False Calm", a journey that peels back the layers of the ghostly fog blanketing Patagonia to reveal engrossing complexity. With quiet introspection, Cristoff... Read More

Norah Lange’s "People in the Room" is a testament to the breadth of the imagination. A story within a story, its lines between reality and fantasy are obscured on a street in Buenos Aires. From her window, an unnamed adolescent girl... Read More

Beautifully reconstructing three days in Paris, Ersi Sotiropoulos traverses the complex hallways of the poet Constantine Cavafy’s mind in What’s Left of the Night. A poignant meditation on the origins of an individual’s art, the... Read More

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky grapple with identity, fear, self-discovery, and progress against the surreal backdrop of their novel, "The Snail on the Slope". This is a novel of opposite perspectives. The first is that of Peretz, a... Read More

History and human drama collide in Leonid Yuzefovich’s "Horsemen of the Sands", a wonderful tangle of relationships, religions, and realism. The volume consists of two novellas—“The Storm,” set in a Russian elementary school and... Read More

A satirical take on war in the vein of Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse Five, Serbian author David Albahari’s "Checkpoint" is shocking and comic in equal turns, skillfully pulled together by the force of Albahari’s wit. At an isolated... Read More

An intriguing journey spanning two countries and multiple centuries, Daniel Grenier’s "The Longest Year" is at once epic and intimate, heartwarming and grotesque. This is a novel that defies easy categorization. Shades of the tall tale... Read More

Mournful and animate, Yenta Mash’s stories ingather Romanian shtetl lives before, during, and after Soviet disruptions. Each story is a microcosm of the Jewish diaspora: “as long as they bother to go after us, we can be sure we still... Read More