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July 10, 2025Photo by zea / Adobe Stock About the NovelThis is a story of dispossession and a man who wrestled with God: sometimes dispossession as in simply being thrown out on the street in Lowe…
June 9, 2025Photo by Tania Melnyczuk / Unsplash.com Translator’s Noteby Fion Tse“Nightfall, Beyond Words” is extracted from a chapter of Lo Yu’s novel Yung Yung, originally written…
May 29, 2025Image by Mstluna / Adobe Stock after Mahler’s 5th Symphony, 2nd Movement – Stürmisch bewegt, mit größter VehemenzThe explosion had wrecked the whole street; only this one window was l…
February 25, 2025Photo by Lucas Alexandros / Flickr Lilach Galil’s 2009 novel, Betsilo (In its shadow), is a polyphonic novel told by the six main characters. Rona is a poet and a literary ed…
February 14, 2025Photo by Jamez Picard / Unsplash Whether you celebrate or lament Valentine’s Day, here’s a new story of love’s demise.The Critic had a new girlfriend. He had met her at a Barnes and Noble,…
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December 18, 2024Photo by Alicia Christin Gerald / Unsplash When authorities take Penny Barnhill’s little girl, the single mother must get Phoebe back and find a way—despite being broke—to escape their shatter…
August 27, 2024Photo by avtk / stock.adobe.com Two sisters, one childhood, two versions—and a green sweater. In Anna Voltaggio’s “Lucilla,” the lives of two sisters trace corresponding arcs from childho…
July 24, 2024J. Williams / Unsplash.com In this excerpt from María Elena Morán’s Premio Café Gijón–winning novel, Volver a cuándo (Siruela, 2022), a woman in a refugee camp takes stock of her belo…
July 3, 2024Photo by Datingscout on Unsplash Personal Identity Number is a coming-of-age novel about a Macedonian-Cypriot girl in a dysfunctional family in post-Yugoslav and newly formed Macedonia. Seekin…
June 11, 2024Photo by Ella Moniz On June 11, 2024, Algonquin published Tomas Moniz’s second novel, All Friends Are Necessary. Set during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in Oakland, Ca…
December 20, 2023Epic Photos / Adobe Stock Aboard the North Star IX December 26, 208. . . My dear Celeste: First, allow me to say that you were right, so many years ago, when you said that thi…
September 27, 2023By admirdervisevi - stock.adobe.com András Visky is a Hungarian author living in Romania with a body of work that spans most literary genres, from poetry to drama and fiction to…
June 13, 2023Photo by Why Kei / Unsplash Jung’s Yong-jun’s short story “Disappearing Things,” from his collection A Walk along Seoulleung, won the Moonji Literary Award in 2019. The story’s prota…
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August 22, 2022Sugar cane fields at sunset, near Les Trois Mamelles, Mauritius. Credit: Ian Boswell In this excerpt from the forthcoming translation of the seminal Mauritian Hindi novel Lal Pasina…
August 9, 2022Photo by john_Onate / flickr Book of the Damned is a novel that charts—through multiple narrators who may or may not be invested in the truth about a central shadowy character, Felix Cane…
May 25, 2022Photo by Aaron Burden / Unsplash While recovering at the hospital following a fall, a woman in her seventies recounts her life living under the thumb of a domineering husband and expresse…
May 18, 2022Photo by Myznik Egor on Unsplash 1999 by Ilija Trojanow In the old days, an adulterer was considered morally corrupt. Bad man, bad little man. If it was someone fr…
March 2, 2022Photo by Pierre Châtel-Innocenti / Unsplash In Winter Lights, rising star Irati Elorrieta’s first novel, Añes is a Basque woman who has immigrated to Berlin by way of Paris. Her…
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November 17, 2021Homa, The Tree of Zaqqum (2012) / Wikipedia The following satirical column first appeared in Persian on Afghanistan International. The Taliban have faced censure f…
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