The Best International Fiction of May 2026
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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...
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...
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.
In Mathias Énard’s many novels, encounters between cultures can lead to transformation—and peril.
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...
Plus, a Venezuelan thriller in translation.
In the medieval period it was common for translators to insert commentary on their theories and methods directly into the text.
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...
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...
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...
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...
There was something absurd and distressing in that prelude to the domestic drama.
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...
“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...
The supernatural is mundane in these must-read magical realism and fabulism novels, from historical fantasy inspired by Taino mythology to anticolonial spec fic.
I believed that, when it came to words, everything was allowed.
New books by César Aira, Osamu Dazai, Claire Fuller, Kevin Hartnett, Édouard Louis, and Teddy Wayne.
“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.)”
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.
“Though a novel, the book can also be read as a cacophonous speech-collage-turned-philosophical-investigation of crime and punishment.”
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Fugitive,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2014.
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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