Trigger warning for references to rape. Life for medieval women in Western Europe was supposed […]
The Book of Perilous Dishes, by Doina Ruști
Pâtca is on the run in Doina Ruști’s The Book of Perilous Dishes (carefully translated […]
The Silver Bone, by Andrey Kurkov
In the mad, violent days of the Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War, Samson Kolechko […]
Vengeance is Mine, by Marie NDiaye
I know that if I met Maître Susane, the protagonist of Marie NDiaye’s unsettling novel, […]
The Mantis, by Kōtarō Isaka
Trigger warning for suicide. Kōtarō Isaka continues his tales of Japanese assassins in The Mantis […]
The Postcard, by Anne Berest
I kind of wish that everyone had a writer in the family who could do […]
At Night All Blood is Black, by David Diop
Once a certain amount of time has passed and once we’ve heard a story the […]
The Mad Women’s Ball, by Victoria Mas
Trigger warning for rape. In the nineteenth century, a woman could be diagnosed with hysteria […]
The Captain’s Daughter: Essential Stories, by Alexander Pushkin
Why did no one tell me Alexander Pushkin was funny? Before I read this collection, […]
Little Brother, by Ibrahima Balde
Little Brother, by Ibrahima Balde (co-written with Amets Arzallus Antia and solidly translated by Timberlake […]