Concerning the Future of Souls
Joy Williams presents ninety-nine profound and witty illuminations on mortality through the perspective of Azrael, the Angel of Death, explo…
Literary Fiction
The Son of Man
A man returns to his family after years away, taking them to a crumbling mountain home in a powerful exploration of how violence passes from…
The Ukraine
A striking debut blending fiction and nonfiction to capture the complex essence of Ukraine, written by a Ukrainian author fighting on the fr…
The Premonition
A haunting tale of a young woman, Yayoi, grappling with forgotten childhood memories and a mysterious aunt whose unusual lifestyle conceals …
Mild Vertigo
Mieko Kanai's 'Mild Vertigo' is a stream-of-consciousness novel exploring the existential challenges of motherhood and domestic life in mode…
Territory of Light
A young mother, newly separated, navigates the luminous yet shadowed terrain of single parenthood in a Tokyo apartment, confronting loss, de…
No Longer Human
A haunting exploration of postwar Japanese identity, told through the tormented confessions of Ōba Yōzō, whose calm exterior masks a deeply …
Dandelions
In Yasunari Kawabata's final novel, a woman loses her sight in a mysterious way, blurring the lines between madness and love in a poetic exp…
Breasts and Eggs
A profound and empathetic novel exploring contemporary womanhood in Japan through the intimate journeys of three women confronting their bod…
Weasels in the Attic
Three dinners reveal unsettling reflections on fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary Japan through conversations about fish-b…
Harlequin Butterfly
A.A. Abrams, a successful entrepreneur, obsessively pursues the elusive polyglot writer Tomoyuki Tomoyuki, unraveling a dazzling, mind-bendi…
Someone Like Us
A son of Ethiopian immigrants returns home to unravel the mysteries of his family’s past, confronting loss, addiction, and the complex ties …
Small Rain
A poet's life is transformed by a sudden medical crisis, leading him through the harsh realities of the American healthcare system and into …
Caledonian Road
A sharp, satirical portrait of British class and politics through the intertwined lives of five families navigating fortune and downfall in …
My Heavenly Favorite
A harrowing, hallucinatory confession of obsession and grief, Lucas Rijneveld’s My Heavenly Favorite explores taboo and trauma through the d…
Green Dot
A darkly hilarious and deeply felt novel about Hera’s messy affair with a married journalist and her chaotic journey into adulthood in the t…
Choice
An explosive novel by Neel Mukherjee exploring the profound consequences of our choices through interconnected lives and stories that questi…
Blessings
A poignant coming-of-age novel set in post-military Nigeria, exploring love, identity, and family through the eyes of Obiefuna and his mothe…
Rejection
An audacious and darkly funny novel-in-stories that explores the chaos of modern life through interconnected characters grappling with sex, …
Scaffolding
Two couples, separated by nearly fifty years, inhabit the same Paris apartment, their lives and desires intertwining in a haunting explorati…
The Garden
A haunting literary novel exploring pregnancy as a haunted house, where a woman confronts the control and mysteries of the female body amid …
State of Paradise
A ghostwriter returns to her Florida hometown, confronting eerie disappearances, strange technology, and shifting realities in a haunting me…
Dream Count
A searing novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie exploring the intertwined lives of four Nigerian women grappling with love, identity, and the ch…
We Do Not Part
Han Kang’s poetic novel explores a profound friendship set against the backdrop of a hidden chapter in Korean history, blending dream and re…