Milena shines necessary light on an industry that is more pervasive, and powerful, than most would like to consider. Jorge Zepeda Patterson’s Milena, or the Most Beautiful Femur in the World is a breathtakingly savage thriller set... 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

"The Reef" is a multifaceted exploration of human nature and the ways in which people contend with life after loss. “Peterson achieved the American Dream without wanting to attain it, and his success felt like a second annihilation. In... Read More

Adua is a memorable, affecting tale of postcolonial Africa. Igiaba Scego’s spare "Adua" brings the decolonialization of Africa to life through the stories of Zoppe and his estranged daughter, Adua. In the 1930s, Somali native Zoppe is... 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

An alternating narrative creates a subtle yet intense and multilayered portrait of Okinawans. Shun Medoruma’s "In the Woods of Memory" is a powerful novel of compact complexity, set in the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa. Beginning in... Read More

Atmospheric and haunting, this novel about the lingering effects of violence is impossible to turn away from. In Andrée A. Michaud’s intense "Boundary", lurid crimes inspire a panoramic exploration of a lakeside retreat and its... Read More

This gorgeous, complex, and heartbreaking Brazilian masterpiece is full of lurid turns and surprising reveals. Lúcio Cardoso’s lurid and voluminous masterpiece "Chronicle of the Murdered House" follows the unraveling of the Meneses... Read More