A mysterious death brings chaos and clarity in Priyanka Champaneri’s novel, "The City of Good Death". To die in Kashi is to be freed from the endless burden of reincarnation... Read More

In Yishai Sarid’s dark, thoughtful novel "The Memory Monster", a Holocaust historian struggles with the weight of his profession. The story takes the form of a letter written... Read More

Beyond the Maldives is an archipelago containing fifty-six islands clustered in seven atolls, the Chagos. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the inhabitants of these islands... Read More

A satirical take on war in the vein of Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse Five, Serbian author David Albahari’s "Checkpoint" is shocking and comic in equal turns, skillfully pulled... Read More

"Heartland" arrives in a saturated swirl of inner monologue and devoted observances. The novel’s unnamed narrator grew up in Elmira, a town with distinctive characteristics... Read More

"Beyond the Rice Fields" demonstrates with omniscient sadness mankind’s ability to commit horrific acts. Naivo’s "Beyond the Rice Fields" follows the tumultuous history of... Read More

"The End" is vivid and irascible as it confronts the reality of aging, regrets, and death. Famed actress Fernanda Torres’s debut novel, "The End", is a brutally unflinching... Read More

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... 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... Read More

Large animal veterinary practice takes on gargantuan proportions in Yoss’s "Super Extra Grande", a romp of a novel that weds sci-fi and high farce. In a future that has... Read More

No moment of Jodorowsky’s book is at all predictable, and those who have a taste for the uncanny will be in awe over its undulations into strange, even godly, territory.... Read More

"Captivity" is an exciting and engrossing historical epic that richly rewards the reader. Clocking in at over eight hundred pages, "Captivity" is a sprawling, epic bildungsroman... Read More