In Vigdis Hjorth’s taut, emotive novella "Repetition", a Norwegian woman recalls her troubled teenage years and early sexual experiences. While attending a University of Oslo symphony concert, the anonymous narrator observes a tense... Read More

In Keila Vall de la Ville’s incisive novel "Minerva", an aspiring Venezuelan dancer contemplates her artistic future and unusual family background. Minerva is raised in an unconventional manner: by her mother and two fathers in... Read More

An overzealous boy and his cautious cat teach lessons in recognizing and respecting boundaries in this charming picture book. Arthur loves his cat, Zeffo, but Zeffo is less sure about Arthur. When Arthur pushes a situation too far and... Read More

A dreamy boy with an active imagination plays riverside with his mother in this tale about the pleasures of letting your thoughts drift. He floats on an inner tube past dreamscape scenes of children high up in the trees and neighbors... Read More

Love for Kazakhstan and its people proves key to The Wolf Epoch, a decades-spanning, moving poetry collection. Nurlan Orazalin’s stirring poetry collection The Wolf Epoch compiles selections from ten other books of poetry, threading... Read More

The interlinked short stories of Urszula Honek’s unapologetically stark novella "White Nights" focus on ordinary lives that are subject to savage turns of fate. There are beautiful days in Binarowa, Poland, where the sky goes aflame... Read More

In Cho Haejin’s intricate, touching novel "Simple Heart", a transnational adoptee returns to Korea. Nana, an actor and playwright, grew up in South Korea. Abandoned by her mother at a train station, she lived with the conductor and at... Read More

A night of violence is routine, expected, and devastating in Francisco Maciel’s literary novel There’s No Point in Dying. There is a favela (slum) in the birthplace of samba. At its center are three bars. They’re close enough that... Read More