Book Review: Secrets of the Emerald Tablet by Stewart F. Brennan
A fast-moving supernatural adventure of desert firefights, ancient vaults, and a hero who can’t catch a break.
Book Review: Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia
Animals go mad and men die at a slaughterhouse in rural Brazil. Translated by Zoë Perry.
Book Review: Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
The International Booker–winning novel of food, friendship, and colonial blind spots, translated by Lin King.
Book Review: The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier
An International Booker–longlisted thriller set over one day in a remote French hamlet. Translated by Daniel Levin Becker.
Book Review: The Queen of Swords by Jazmina Barrera
A genre-defying portrait of Mexican writer Elena Garro, translated by Christina MacSweeney.
Book Review: Sleep Phase by Mohamed Kheir
After seven years in prison, a translator returns to a Cairo he no longer recognizes. Translated by Robin Moger.
Book Review: Bury Your Dead by Ana Paula Maia
A roadkill collector in rural Brazil finds the wrong kind of body. Translated by Padma Viswanathan.
Book Review: Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro
Thirty years after an unsolved crime, a father’s love cracks open a family’s silence. Translated by Frances Riddle.
Book Review: Murder at the End of the World by Akane Araki
An asteroid is two months out, and a would-be driver and her ex-cop instructor still want justice. Translated by Jesse Kirkwood.
Book Review: And How Have You Been? by Maria Judite de Carvalho
The Portuguese master’s late short fiction, translated into English for the first time by Margaret Jull Costa.