A Cairo-set fantasy detective novel in which Fatma el-Sha'arawi investigates a murder tied to the possible return of al-Jahiz, against a backdrop of magic, bureaucracy, and unrest.
A compact, intense novel following Alfa Ndiaye, a Senegalese soldier in the First World War, as grief and battlefield violence drive him toward psychological collapse. The English translation won the 2021 International Booker Prize.
This poetry collection follows trauma, memory, and the long work of self-recovery. It rebuilds a life from painful inheritance through language that is intimate and unsparing.
When Lila Macapagal returns home after a breakup, she has to help save her aunt’s failing restaurant. After a food critic drops dead, Lila becomes the prime suspect and must investigate the murder herself with help from her family and neighbors.
The Junta of Happenstance is a debut poetry collection that threads politics, migration, and chance through fragmentary imagery. With quiet anger and irony, it makes contemporary unease sharply visible.
Seen through the eyes of Aida, a girl who flees Bosnia for Italy, the novel follows family breakdown and reassembly, the memory of war, and a long search for belonging. A private coming-of-age story expands into the history of displacement.
Esther G. Belin, Jeff Berglund, Connie A. Jacobs, Anthony K. Webster, Sherwin Bitsui
2022 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award Winner The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature is unprecedented. It showcases the breadth, depth, and diversity of Diné creative artists and their poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose.This wide-ranging anthology brings together writers who offer perspectives that span generations and perspectives on life and Diné history.
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE** By turns essay, memoir and cultural study, Finding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's singular account of his discovery of, and enduring passion for, North Indian music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose principles and practices will alter the reader's notion of what music might - and can - be. Tracing the music's development, Finding the Raga dwells on its most distinctive and mysterious characteristics: its extraordinary approach to time, language and silence; its embrace of confoundment, and its ethos of evocation over representation. The result is a strange gift of a book, for musicians and music lovers, and for any creative mind in search of diverse and transforming inspiration. 'Supple, intricate and uncompromising, full of delicate observation and insight, Amit Chaudhuri's Finding the Raga immerses us in the rigorous beauty and cosmology of Indian classical music. It is also a loving memoir about relationships and places, dedication and vocation.' Geoff Dyer
Sho is an experimental poetry collection that uses Black vernacular, sonic repetition, and visual page design. It foregrounds bodily sensation and linguistic leaps, pushing poetry toward performance.