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A caso
Adelphi

A caso

Tommaso Landolfi

A short-story collection by Tommaso Landolfi in which bleak humor and loss surface from tale to tale.

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Allen Lane

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

Serhii Plokhy

This historical nonfiction account reconstructs the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 through technical failure, Soviet secrecy, decisions on the ground, and the experience of victims. It moves beyond the explosion itself to evacuation, information control, and political consequences, showing the dangers created when nuclear technology meets state power.

Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Seen Through the Eyes of Everyday People
Elliott & Thompson Limited

Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Seen Through the Eyes of Everyday People

Julia Boyd

This work of narrative history follows Germany from the aftermath of the First World War to the end of the Second through the records of foreign travelers, diplomats, reporters, students, artists, and athletes. By foregrounding uncertainty, fascination, blindness, and resistance as they appeared at the time, it shows fascism becoming part of everyday scenery.

All the Fabulous Beasts
Undertow Publications

All the Fabulous Beasts

Priya Sharma

Built around love, rebirth, nature, and sexuality, sixteen stories move between the uncanny and the modern macabre. It is a dense horror collection where mythic atmosphere and bodily sensation coexist.

Slave Old Man: A Novel
The New Press

Slave Old Man: A Novel

Patrick Chamoiseau, Linda Coverdale

This concentrated, poetic novella follows an elderly enslaved man who flees a plantation in Martinique while his master and a mastiff pursue him. It faces the violence of colonial slavery directly, yet through the forest's strange vitality and a mythic narrative voice it brings freedom's impulse and human dignity into focus.

The Mars Room: A Novel
Scribner

The Mars Room: A Novel

Rachel Kushner

From the point of view of Romy Hall, incarcerated in a California women’s prison, the novel explores violence, isolation, and her thoughts about the son she left outside. It sharply connects the prison interior with a broader cut through American life.

Theory of Bastards
Europa Editions

Theory of Bastards

Audrey Schulman

In a near future shaped by climate stress and technological dependence, Francine recovers from chronic pain and begins testing her evolutionary theory while studying bonobos. As crisis arrives, the boundaries between scientist, subject, love, and survival begin to shift.

EMISSARY,THE(B)
NEW DIRECTIONS

EMISSARY,THE(B)

MARGARET TAWADA, YOKO/MITSUTANI

Set in a future Japan isolated after a great disaster, this collection centers on a title story in which vigorous elders and frail children inhabit an inverted world. Through the daily life of Yoshiro and his great-grandson Mumei, it asks fable-like questions about environmental collapse, linguistic change, and what passes between generations.

Little Eve
Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Little Eve

Catriona Ward

Centered on the bond between Eve and Dinah, girls raised inside a sealed community on a remote Scottish island, the novel explores violence, control, and the pull of the wider world. Its gothic atmosphere is marked by the distortions of faith and power.