Trans. M. A. Salvadon. Charlottesville. University of Virginia Press. 2024. 216 pages.Évelyne Trouillot’s Désirée Congo is bursting with color. Set in revolutionary St. Domin…
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Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2025. 180 pages.Rarely does reality distort or disorient like it does when one faces a serious illness. To experience uncontrollable changes in a body, or to obse…
Charlottesville, Virginia. Creature Publishing. 2025. 358 pages.We all have our personal definitions of “happiness.” For many, it is bound up with our relationships, or our careers, o…
New York. Knopf. 2025. 432 pages.The Antidote doesn’t provide a historical remedy. Instead, it’s an ambitious revisionist western set in the fictional Nebraska town of Uz in…
Madrid. Alfaguara. 2025. 296 pages.An asteroid impact, a father who lives in a virtual world as a connectome, and memories that can spread like contagions—these are just a few of the…
South Portland, Maine. Sandorf Passage. 2025. 183 pages.Having won both the European Union Prize for Literature and Croatia’s Vladimir Nazor Award–Literature in 2020 for a short-story…
Paris. Michel Lafon. 2024. 448 pages.The author, a former police detective, is known in France for his crime fiction. This is his first historical novel. It is ostensibly about the Wi…
Tunis. Éditions Elyzad. 2024. 160 pages.What do tigers have to do with stars that form scintillating necklaces of heavenly bodies in the Central Asian sky or with the nightly illumina…
Toronto. Knopf Canada. 2025. 256 pages.Roza Nozari’s All the Parts We Exile is a powerful testament to the dualities an individual possesses. The youngest of three daughters,…
Lubbock. Texas Tech University Press. 2024. 288 pages.Longings is the first collection of contemporary fiction aimed at increasing global readers’ recognition of women’s cont…
New York. Catapult. 2025. 238 pages.The Dance and the Fire’s protagonists can’t quite trust their eyes. This is in part a product of their environment: Cuern…
Tianjin. Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House. 2025. 191 pages.A Chinese writer living in the United States, Gu Yan has written much about the immigrant experience. In her lates…
Reading, UK. Dar Arab 2025. 186 pages.Written by Jan Dost, a Syrian Kurdish poet, writer, and translator, Safe Corridor is his first novel to appear in English, and it comes…
Leeds, UK. HopeRoad. 2025. 122 pages.In Small Boat, Vincent Delecroix uses a first-person narrator as a vehicle to examine the issue of migration. Based on t…
New York. Harper Voyager. 2025. 560 pages.When Alice Law snaps a piece of chalk in two and files her admission form to hell, you know R. F. Kuang is at it again. Katabasis…
New York. New Press. 2025. 225 pages.Since 2005’s Broken Glass, Alain Mabanckou has emerged as the Congo’s definitive literary voice (see WLT, Sept.…
New York. New Directions. 2025. 224 pages.Yoko Tawada’s fiction is packed with bracing ideas about language and community, but she has the lightest of touches, even when she’s grappli…
New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2025. 320 pages.The often-fraught search for self is sometimes just a masquerade written under the fragile narrative arc of making a journey bac…
San Francisco. Two Lines Press. 2025. 178 pages.The reach and rustle of voice is inescapable, as it should be. The question is, How many voices temper personal and worldviews as the m…
Hong Kong. Earnshaw. 2025. 212 pages.Drawing inspiration from the same bustling coffee shop in Soho, Hong Kong, that fueled her 2016 short-story collection Halfway up a Hill,…
Paris. Albin Michel. 2024. 416 pages.Philippe Collin is known for his biographical essays, including Léon Blum, une vie héroïque (2023), as well as for his work as a scriptwr…
Madrid. Alfaguara. 2025. 288 pages.Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s latest novel, Los nombres de Feliza, tells the story in fictionalized form of real-life Colombian sculptress Feliza…
Charlottesville. University of Virginia Press. 2025. 148 pages.In A Waltz, Lynda Chouiten crafts an elegant and incisive narrative that follows Chahira, a se…
Tunis. Editions Elyzad. 2025. 160 pages.Picture an almond tree—prunus triloba—fanning its pink blossoms. It is the perfect illustration of a detective novel. Starting from the trunk (the crim…
New York. Archipelago. 2025. 240 pages.Angolan José Eduardo Agualusa is one of the foremost authors of the Portuguese-speaking world and arguably one of the most fascinating contempor…