Quietly masterful, the novel contains rich details of nineteenth-century Russian life. Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s "City Folk and Country Folk" is a slyly captivating, contemporaneous novel of mid-nineteenth-century Russia. Khvoshchinskaya... Read More

Vallejo has his own unique brand of Latin-American experimentalism with a Kafkaesque flair. Joseph Mulligan presents an exceptional translation of Latin-American author César Vallejo’s early, prison-inspired work in the story... Read More

Wilfried N’Sondé delivers a deep slice of the human experience in luminous prose. Flight, forgiveness, and the plight of an illegal African immigrant in Paris are the subjects of Wilfried N’Sondé’s accomplished and richly... Read More

"The End" is vivid and irascible as it confronts the reality of aging, regrets, and death. Famed actress Fernanda Torres’s debut novel, "The End", is a brutally unflinching look at the lifelong friendships of five aging male friends... Read More

What haunts most about the novel is the tacit understanding that everything must change. From acclaimed French novelist Michel Déon comes the fictional memoir of Édouard, the only child of a middle-class couple. Translated by Julian... Read More

The novel includes a profound commentary on the relations of humans to time, space, and the divine. Japanese speculative-fiction master Yoshio Aramaki plays with religious and philosophical textures against a science-fiction canvas in... Read More

Ndiaye’s novel is haunting in its strangeness and is pointed in its warnings—that happiness cannot come at the expense of one’s core. Eerie, involving, and surreal, Marie Ndiaye’s "My Heart Hemmed In" follows a once-respected... Read More

This remarkable collection demonstrates that art, even in a form as humble as the weekly newspaper comic strip, can be transformative. Panic Fables compiles 284 comic strips from Alejandro Jodorowsky, published between 1967 and 1973.... Read More