In Sarit Yishai-Levi’s sprawling historical novel "The Woman Beyond the Sea", three generations of women consider what it means to love and the power of knowing your history. Although its chapters are narrated by a rotating cast, the... Read More

In Dorothy Tse’s novel "Owlish", a bizarre love affair upends a respectable man’s dull but orderly life in a city that is anything but ordinary. Perhaps it was inevitable that Professor Q, a middle-aged man caught in a dead-end job... Read More

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