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Mircea Cartarescu, Sean Cotter
A schoolteacher-narrator in suburban Bucharest moves through everyday frustration, dreams, philosophy, history, and mathematics in a novel that keeps pushing at the boundaries of reality. Against the pressure of communist Romania, it explores escape and the power of literature on a vast scale.
Una Mannion
Moving between a missing sister and the daughter growing up under her father’s control, the novel traces the chain of coercion and violence hidden inside a family. It is both a search for the truth and a quiet account of damaged relationships trying to reconnect.
Fae Myenne Ng
From the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir of her beloved San Francisco's Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion In pre-Communist China, Fae Myenne Ng's father memorized a book of lies and gained entry to the United States as a stranger's son, evading the Exclusion Act, an immigration law which he believed was meant to extinguish the Chinese American family. During the McCarthy era, he entered the Confession Program in a failed attempt to salvage his marriage only to have his citizenship revoked to resident alien.
Durs Grnbein, Karen Leeder
This selected volume surveys two decades of German poetry, layering historical echoes, dream fragments, and the memory of cities. Its blend of intellectual play and melancholy vision shows the wide reach of contemporary European poetry.
Vanessa Ricci-Thode
Lusi, a child who can talk to ghosts, travels with wizards and dragons in hopes of protecting her family. As a children's fantasy, the book folds fear and loneliness into a story about growth and responsibility.
Bothayna Al-Essa, Ranya Abdelrahman, Sawad Hussain
A novel about censorship, forbidden books, and the desire to read, set in a library where power and curiosity are in constant tension.
A. D. Sui
Inez, carrying the damage of military service, and Ennis, desperate to end a long war, circle each other in a game of manipulation and attraction. The novella is a sharp contest of tactics that keeps returning to the body, desire, and shifting loyalties.
Yulin Kuang
"How to End a Love Story is one of the sexiest, smartest, funniest, and most effective novels I've read in a long time. Yulin Kuang's voice is strong, sure, and singular-I'll read anything she writes.
John Wiswell
Shesheshen, a shapeshifting monster, is pushed by hostile humans into an unexpected romance. Keeping its body-horror edge, the novel treats chosen family and the difficulty of being loved with humor and warmth.
Victoria Chang
Inspired by Agnes Martin's paintings and writings, this collection moves between loss, depression, art, and a changing sense of self. Its quiet abstraction still leaves a strong physical and emotional trace.
Dario Fo, Franca Rame, Tom Basden
A satirical play exposing police corruption and power through black comedy.
Caleigh Crow
Grocery-store clerk Beth has had a hell of a week. A hell of a life, actually, full of people squashing her soul.