Beyond the Maldives is an archipelago containing fifty-six islands clustered in seven atolls, the Chagos. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the inhabitants of these islands became permanently homeless. Shenaz Patel’s "Silence of the... Read More

An exciting new voice in crime fiction emerges with "Zen and the Art of Murder", the first novel in Oliver Bottini’s Black Forest Investigation series. The book opens with a badly beaten monk wandering the snow-covered German... Read More

Two wild creatures—a hornet and a boy—navigate the harsh realities of life in the coal yards in this patchwork of musings and lyrical verse. The story flows around silhouettes and textured collages in sooty shades of smoke and ash,... Read More

Johannes Anyuru’s stunning They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears is a rare, powerful multiverse novel that reflects the best and worst of human potential. Pushed from a bridge by a fascist, the young woman’s mother declares... Read More

Teetering somewhere between uncanny and debaucherous, Audrée Wilhelmy’s eerie novel "The Body of the Beasts" focuses on a lighthouse-keeping family subsisting at the edge of civilization. In the Borya family, desire is voyeuristic,... Read More

In João Reis’s melancholy yet comic The Translator’s Bride, a nameless translator in a nameless city struggles to interpret his own life, wandering through a frustrating maze of streetcars, chilling rain, and moldy interiors. His... Read More

There’s something a little mysterious at work in Hebe Uhart’s "The Scent of Buenos Aires", but it’s the ordinary mystery of other people. These thirty-eight short stories function like a panopticon, each dipping into one person’s... Read More

“Nietzche was right. It’s upon the death of those one loves that they become for us a shining star,” admits Maya Ombasic in her memoir, "Mostarghia". Ombasic was twenty-seven years old when her father died—the same age he was... Read More