New York. Knopf. 2022. 704 pages.
TO PASS BETWEEN history and fiction is to walk a road so wide that either side is almost always inconspicuous from the other. But, at times, they con…
FICTION
New York. Archipelago. 2023. 137 pages. MAYLIS DE KERANAGAL’S Eastbound is an antiwar story in which no bullets are fired and not a single battle is fought. The French writer…
New York. HarperVia. 2023. 400 pages. AN INTERESTING TREND has emerged in the decade during which African and diaspora women feature the experience of migration—outside of Africa. NoV…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2022. 113 pages. ROBERTO CALASSO, the Italian writer and publisher, died in 2021. Most of his written work belongs within a sequence of studies on…
Paris. Gallimard. 2022. 160 pages. Born in Rwanda in 1956, Scholastique Mukasonga moved to Burundi in 1973 (already because of anti-Tutsi persecution) before eventually settling in Fr…
New York. Random House. 2023. 368 pages. THE SRI LANKAN Civil War, which began with demands of the ethnic Tamil minority to form their separate homeland in the early 1980s after waves…
New York. Grove Press. 2023. 416 pages. DESPITE HIS GENTLE demeanor and mournful eyes that speak to the horrific suffering he endured as a child growing up in a rural province in the…
Valencia, Spain. Pre-Textos. 2021. 218 pages. STOP ME IF you’ve read this: a Latin American writer puts his own name within quotation marks to retell some of his life and of his novel…
Barcelona. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial. 2022. 295 pages. CHILEAN WRITER Cristian Alarcón was awarded this year’s Alfaguara Novel Prize for El tercer paraíso. Ala…
New York. Bloomsbury. 2021. 368 pages. SHORTLISTED FOR THE Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022, Elif Shafak’s thirteenth novel, The Island of Missing Trees, revisits Shafak’s much…
Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dzanc Books. 2022. 197 pages. I DIDN'T “READ” Nina Shope’s debut novel, Asylum; I lived it, pulled into and almost physically held captive by this heart…
London. Fitzcarraldo Editions. 2022. 232 pages. “EVERY LANDSCAPE,” American geographer D. W. Meinig writes, “is an accumulation.” Within it, “the past endures.” Writers concerned with…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2022. 228 pages. “EVERYBODY WHO HAS read Wise Blood thinks I’m a hillbilly nihilist, whereas I would like to create the impression over…
New York. Vintage. 2022. 240 pages. “EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS framed through the prism of war.” This line that occurs toward the end of the novel Bolla is a ke…
New York. New Directions. 2022. 224 pages. EVELIO ROSERO, AUTHOR of more than thirty books and winner of Colombia’s National Literary Prize, often writes about his country’s civil di…
Leeds, UK. Peepal Tree. 2022. 190 pages. ANDRE BAGOO’S The Dreaming explores the lives and dreams of everyday gay Trinidadians through the short-story form. The Dreaming…
Paris. Éditions Emmanuelle Collas. 2022. 364 pages. THE CAMEROONIAN NOVELIST Djaïli Amadou Amal (b. 1975) is best known for Les Impatientes (2020), which illustrates, from t…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2022. 368 pages. WITH EACH NEW work, Yiyun Li reinvents herself. Readers have come to expect her complexity of thought, detailed historical backg…
New York. Atria Books. 2022. 278 pages. WITH THEIR SEVENTH book, Akwaeke Emezi adds another genre to their catalog: romance novel. The novel begins with Feyi Adekola recovering from t…
New York. New York Review Books. 2022. 144 pages. AMIT CHAUDHURI HAS always been a writer in whose works a place comes alive like a fully delineated character. In his first novel,…
Sheffield, UK. Tilted Axis Press. 2022. 127 pages. MONIQUE ILBOUDO IS a poet, novelist, defender of human and women’s rights, including rights to determine one’s own identities and c…
London. Verso. 2022. 330 pages. IT IS A MADWOMAN’S pursuit to keep chasing what you can never have, but acclaimed novelist Vigdis Hjorth understands how desperation can take hold of…
Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2022. 247 pages. THE PRESENT, DESCRIBED accurately enough, can later read like prophecy. That Offended Sensibilities, first published in Russia…
Seattle. Amazon Crossing. 2022. 368 pages. LAST YEAR, PAINTINGS by the Chagossian artist Clément Siatous, exhibited at the Caudan Arts Centre in Port Louis, Mauritius, showed the main…
Saqqez, Kurdistan. Khani. 2022. 217 pages. SAYYED QADIR HEDAYATI (b. 1976), a dominant contemporary Kurdish novelist in Iran, has written a number of novels, including The Yoke of…