Andreas Izquierdo’s "The Happiness Bureau" centers on a government employee, Albert Happy, whose tenderness may just redeem the role of bureaucracies. Happy is a decades-long employee of the Agency of Administrative Affairs; he runs... Read More

Slim, feverish, and grim, the novella eulogizes the darkness of Germany’s history. How well do you know your neighborhood? The earth beneath you? These two questions lead to the cultivated, dream-state prose of Wolfgang Hilbig’s "Old... Read More

Lawlor’s novel introduces hefty topics in a highly entertaining, fresh, and thought-provoking way. With their debut, "Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl", Andrea Lawlor delivers a hilarious, original, gender-fluid novel replete with... Read More

A misanthropic lead makes this humorous, character-driven novel impossible to forget. Marie-Sabine Roger, author of Soft in the Head and Afternoons with Margueritte, continues with character-driven narratives in her third novel, "Get... 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

"Berlin Red" is a true literary thriller that highlights all the intrepid strategy in espionage and the fight for survival. "Berlin Red", Sam Eastland’s seventh installment of the popular Inspector Pekkala series, is a smartly plotted,... Read More

Rulfo’s stories and sketches are absorbing and believable, classically exploring the coarse underbelly of small-town Mexico. Hard luck, cockfighting, and desperation run through Juan Rulfo’s The Golden Cockerel and Other Writings,... Read More

This quiet novel explores the little-traversed ground of birdsong and the science of communication. Sylvia Torti’s "Cages" is a thought-provoking novel about the complexity of birdsong and how it parallels human communication, related... Read More