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  • The Best International Fiction of May 2026
  • June’s Best International Fiction
  • Found in Translation: Bothayna Al-Essa’s The Book Censor’s Library

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

The Best International Fiction of May 2026

May brings a particularly solid crop of newly translated mysteries, thrillers, and horror fiction; I would also like to point out how nicely the covers match, and also how nice it...

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crimereads.com /2 weeks ago

June’s Best International Fiction

June brings a host of excellent new novels in translation, including two reissues from Japan, a scintillating Brazilian thriller, a satirical Venezuelan noir, and a quietly elegant...

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reactormag.com /1 month ago

Found in Translation: Bothayna Al-Essa’s The Book Censor’s Library

A satiric dystopia about censorship and art The post Found in Translation: Bothayna Al-Essa’s <i>The Book Censor’s Library</i> appeared first on Reactor.

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nybooks.com /1 month ago

The Other in the Mirror

In Mathias Énard’s many novels, encounters between cultures can lead to transformation—and peril.

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churchtimes.co.uk /2 weeks ago

Fiction round-up: Prestige Drama by Séamas O’Reilly, Transcription by Ben Lerner, Offseason by Avigayl Sharp

WHAT happens when the medium becomes the message is the concern of fiction this summer. In Séamas O’Reilly’s Prestige Drama (Fleet, £14.99 (£13.49); 978-0-349-72789-9), the city o...

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foreignpolicy.com /1 month ago

Maggie O’Farrell’s Most Ambitious Novel Yet

Plus, a Venezuelan thriller in translation.

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theparisreview.org /1 month ago

The Summer of Lion Meat

In the medieval period it was common for translators to insert commentary on their theories and methods directly into the text.

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koreatimes.co.kr /1 month ago

Fantasy writer Lee Young-do falls short of French literary award

Korean fantasy writer Lee Young-do has fallen short of winning the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, one of France’s most prestigious speculative fiction awards, but his nomination marke...

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kirkusreviews.com /1 week ago

WE WERE FORBIDDEN

In I Who Have Never Known Men, which was republished in a revised translation in 2022, Harpman’s eerie prescience was on full display in a tale about 39 women and a girl held for d...

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thebeaverton.com /3 days ago

Cackling publisher translates all of book except title

A SECRET SUBTERRANEAN LAIR IN AN UNSPECIFIED PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE OFFICE ― Stifling maniacal shouts of dastardly glee and stroking a white cat on his lap, editor Iago Heep sent the...

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frenchly.us /3 weeks ago

Stories Within Stories Within Stories: Valérie Perrin’s ‘Tata’

When a woman dies for the second time, her niece returns home to solve a dark small town mystery. The post Stories Within Stories Within Stories: Valérie Perrin’s ‘Tata’ appeared f...

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

“Constellation,” by Andrea Bajani

There was something absurd and distressing in that prelude to the domestic drama.

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tricycle.org /1 month ago

‘Fiction and Poetry’

In her latest collection of experimental prose and poetry, Kim Hyesoon alchemizes the ills of South Korean society into koan-like effigies. The post ‘Fiction and Poetry’ appeared f...

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brittlepaper.com /2 weeks ago

The Beyond | Zakaria Bychlifen | Fiction

  “Love, calm down. It’s not worth it.” He looked at her—at those empty eyes. The furniture behind her was a blur, as hazy as the love they had once shared. He had been cooking din...

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bookriot.com /1 week ago

Where the Extraordinary is Ordinary

The supernatural is mundane in these must-read magical realism and fabulism novels, from historical fantasy inspired by Taino mythology to anticolonial spec fic.

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

“Stories,” by Annie Ernaux

I believed that, when it came to words, everything was allowed.

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theparisreview.org /1 month ago

Perfectoid Spaces

New books by César Aira, Osamu Dazai, Claire Fuller, Kevin Hartnett, Édouard Louis, and Teddy Wayne.

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theparisreview.org /1 month ago

The Vanishing Library: Timothy Ely’s Odd Little Book from Outer Space

“The few words it contains are indecipherable, of no language. (The letters look Hebrew—if you don’t know Hebrew and have never seen Hebrew letters before.)”

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taipeitimes.com /1 month ago

International Booker Prize winner to be adapted into series

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reactormag.com /3 weeks ago

Double Take: Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim

Mahvesh Murad reviews Isabel J. Kim's novel about migration and personhood. The post Double Take: Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim appeared first on Reactor.

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thechive.com /4 weeks ago

Foreign Movie Titles Translated Back to English is a Wild Ride

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theparisreview.org /1 week ago

Hélène Bessette and the Novel as Arc Lamp

“Though a novel, the book can also be read as a cacophonous speech-collage-turned-philosophical-investigation of crime and punishment.”

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

Han Ong Reads Lyudmila Ulitskaya

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Fugitive,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2014.

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kirkusreviews.com /2 days ago

THE ENGLISH SPEAKERS

Zaza’s intriguing noir procedural moves kaleidoscopically, with themes far more provocative than a traditional whodunit. At the center are three police detectives, all in different...

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