A lonely hairdresser finds comfort and inspiration in an unlikely place in Stéphane Carlier’s effervescent English-language debut, "Clara Reads Proust". The people working at the Cindy Coiffure hair salon are a dissatisfied bunch.... Read More

A determined, empathetic woman works to preserve the stories that others dismiss in Valérie Perrin’s scintillating novel "Forgotten on Sunday". Orphaned as a toddler and raised by her grandparents, Justine could be cynical at... Read More

Self-consciously “phantasmagoric and allegorical,” this ambitious novel revels in a wide-eyed traveler’s surreal trek across all of Africa’s nations. Acquiescing to the outlandish is obligatory in Areg Azatyan’s epic adventure... Read More

In Christophe Bernard’s novel "The Hollow Beast", a patriarch’s fervent pursuit of revenge has intergenerational consequences with the emergence of a mysterious beast that haunts one of his descendants decades later. During a fateful... Read More

Louis Timagène Houat’s harrowing, hopeful abolition novel "The Maroons" introduces a crucial Black narrative to the English canon. A maroon, a term used during the Indian Ocean slave trade, is defined as a fugitive, a Black person who... Read More

Cultures and generations clash in Maya Arad’s insightful novella collection "The Hebrew Teacher", which follows three storylines whose flows are sometimes concentric. Ilana is a Hebrew professor. She’s been at her school for “forty... Read More

In Pascale Robert-Diard’s novel "The Little Liar", a weary small-town lawyer takes a professionally and emotionally challenging case. When Alice agrees to represent Lisa, a woman who was raped as a minor, the case seems cut-and-dried.... Read More