With echoes of 1984 and Brave New World, Rabasa delivers a forceful, hysterical debut that’s one for the political ages. “Outside of vague moral notions and Manichean fables, truth was, in reality, no use at all,” muses a character... Read More

Noiville’s novel is a sharp, taut thriller, both thought-provoking and terrifying. Florence Noiville’s "A Cage in Search of a Bird" is an engrossing psychological thriller that examines the emotional depths of obsession. The book is... Read More

With its masterful writing and epic scope, it is certain to find its own footing as an enduring work of world literature. Late in the novel "A Spare Life", by Lidija Dimkovska, a character asserts that “every pain is both local and... Read More

An egregious murder in a beloved church initiates a compelling whodunit in this energetic and original crime novel. How do you catch a killer in one of the world’s most celebrated churches, particularly during the Feast of the... Read More

"The Castrato" is an enjoyable portrait of post-Renaissance Italy told from a fresh and original point of view. Florence in 1698 is the backdrop for Joyce Pool’s "The Castrato", a sensitive tale of the joys and sorrows of life as a... Read More

These stories deserve a cherished place in the canon of Jewish literature. Oedipus in Brooklyn gathers stories and personal essays from Blume Lempel, a Yiddish-speaking refugee who escaped the Holocaust in America but who never stopped... Read More

Knowledge is a form of both escape and imprisonment, in this intricate and prismatic novel. In beautifully detached prose, Carlos Fonseca Suárez’s "Colonel Lágrimas" weaves the past and present together in an intricate web of memory.... Read More

Chaucer’s classic stories are given new life in this accessible translation. Just like the hems of skirts that rise and fall with the current fad, many books are loved in their time before quietly being put to rest on dusty shelves.... Read More