In Viktorie Hanišová’s lyrical novel "The Mushroom Gatherer", a woman uncovers painful childhood memories that lie in wait beneath the surface of her quiet life. In the seven years since she ran away from home and never looked back,... Read More

Mireille Best’s multifaceted novel "Hymn to Moray Eels" is about queer attraction, social expectations, and the intricacies of women’s friendships in 1950s France. Adolescence made sixteen-year-old Mila feel exposed and vulnerable.... Read More

A percipient girl narrates her tumultuous life experiences in "Carnaval Fever", Yuliana Ortiz Ruano’s lyrical, pulsing novel. In the 1990s, in Ecuador’s Afro-Ecuadorian neighborhood of Esmeraldas, Ainhoa lives at her grandmother’s... Read More

Shira Gorshman’s piquant historical novel Hannah’s Sheep and Cattle nestles an abiding love story amid the interwar upheavals of Soviet Russia. In 1930, on a Jewish commune on the wide Crimean steppe, Hanah is twenty-three, the... Read More

Beneath a canopy of trees in a wide, green land, a man’s attention is pulled to the sky. Wonderment directs his days—until self-consciousness prompts him to fade in with the crowd, looking down and getting lost in routines. Time... Read More

Engaging, swift, and immersive, Gerald J. Davis’s translation of "Aeneid" keeps the poetry alive inside the vessel of prose. Gerald J. Davis’s new translation of Virgil’s classic poem "Aeneid" is both inventive and traditional.... Read More

The end is a new beginning for a young man named in defiance of death in Alain Mabanckou’s otherworldly novel "Dealing with the Dead". On Independence Day for the Republic of the Congo, Liwa, a hotel cook, gets dressed up, receives his... Read More

Giving life to the incidental, the forgotten, and the ignored, "The Shadow of the Mammoth", Fabio Morábito’s collection of eighteen distinctive, heartbreaking, and quirky tales, skews the intricacies of existence and compassion... Read More