“A novel about the world’s complexity needs to be complicated; the truth is sometimes slant.” In @theguardian.com‬‬, Stuart Kelly reviews Jacek Dukaj’s newly translated novel, “Ice” - www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

“The stories reveal Akasegawa as a master of association; everything he encounters can become anything else” In @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Ben Woollard reviews Genpei Akasegawa’s newly translated story collection, “I Guess All We Have Is Freedom” - asianreviewofbooks.com/i-guess-all-...

“Aside from the viscerally wintry settings […] these stories are connected by a striking interiority of the struggling characters within.” In @winnipegfreepress.com‬‬, Sara Harms reviews Ingvild Rishøi’s newly translated story collection, “Winter Stories” - www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

“The instrument operates as a metamodern artifact; it is the product of Enlightenment progress but requires a Romantic sacrament before it will speak.” In @reviewcanada.bsky.social‬‬, Ian Canon reviews Michael Redhill’s new novel, “The Trial of Katterfelto” - reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...

“The feeling of being at home but not quite, both physically and mentally, is the theme that runs through this novel.” In @worldlittoday.bsky.social‬‬, Catherine Venner reviews Peter Handke’s newly translated novel, “The Ballad of the Last Guest” - worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...

“Mila’s narration is deeply internal, but she orients herself around another and locates herself in the scope of their interactions.” In @fullstopmag.bsky.social‬‬, McKenzie Watson-Fore reviews Mireille Best’s newly translated novel, “Hymn to Moray Eels” - www.full-stop.net/2025/12/15/r...

“D.R. is shaped by the era’s faith in information systems; he lets probability dictate his movements, and he embodies all the dangers of limitless openness.” In @thepointmag.bsky.social‬‬, Tim Leonido reviews Gurney Norman’s newly reissued novel, “Divine Right’s Trip” thepointmag.com/criticism/na...

“In the end, Verunschk’s mélange of visceral, inventive voices resonates powerfully.” In @wwborders.bsky.social‬‬, Anderson Tepper reviews Micheliny Verunschk’s newly translated novel, “The Jaguar’s Roar” - wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

National Book Critics Circle 2025 longlist for Barrios book in translation prize announced - www.bookcritics.org/2025/12/18/2...

“At a technical level, these stories are perfectly constructed and economical, with a prose style that is occasionally lyrical.” In @thetls.bsky.social, Hassan Akram reviews Sean O’Brien’s new short story collection, “The Long Glass” - www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

National Book Critics Circle 2025 longlist for poetry announced - www.bookcritics.org/2025/12/17/2...

“If there’s one reason to read Tournier’s ‘Friday’ today, it’s because it stays the course. Tournier never gives up on the goal of shattering the glass cage.” In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Drew Basile reviews Michel Tournier’s newly reissued novel, “Friday” - lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

“Light is not just a symbol. It is material. It shows what can be seen and exposes what is missed.” In the European Literature Network, Alexandra Roesch reviews Nino Haratischwili’s newly translated novel, “The Lack of Light” - www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...

National Book Critics Circle 2025 longlist for fiction announced - www.bookcritics.org/2025/12/15/2...

“Berryman created something bigger than me, bigger than you; he made Henry and the gross ordinariness of his life on the page a matter of legend” In Newcity‬‬, Annette LePique reviews John Berryman’s collection of previously unpublished poems, “Only Sing” - lit.newcity.com/2025/12/15/a...

“In the novella the investigation takes the form of a symbolic act.” In @clereviewbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Jonathan Larson reviews Leslie Kaplan’s newly translated novella, “Miss Nobody Knows” - clereviewofbooks.com/leslie-kapla...

“Dos Passos’ emphasis on the aural is often overlooked, but it combines with his montage technique to cement his great symphony of concrete and misery.” In The Metropolitan Review‬‬, Duncan Stuart revisits John Dos Passos’ “Manhattan Transfer” - metropolitanreview.com/the-miraculo...

“This constant rush of remembrance is both blessing and curse, a balm of familiarity that stings as it soothes.” In @wirobooks.bsky.social‬‬, Frances Thomas reviews Perrine Tripier’s newly translated novel, “Our Precious Wars” - www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/o...

“Across the collection, these stories are unforgiving and gut-wrenching, a reminder that reality is often the same.” In Asymptote Journal‬‬‬‬, Rebecca Suzuki reviews Esther Karin Mngodo’s newly translated short story collection, “The Witness of Nina Mvungi” - www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/12...

“Reading ‘The Ways of Paradise’ is like unfolding an interpretation of a dream—or nightmare—we did not ourselves have or no longer remember.” In The Brooklyn Rail‬‬, Joseph Albernaz reviews Peter Cornell’s newly translated novel, “The Ways of Paradise” - brooklynrail.org/2025/12/book...

“Most of all, it is a world of interconnection between human and more-than-human experiences.” In Reading in Translation‬‬, Claudia Dellacasa reviews Kamakura Sayumi’s newly translated poetry collection, “Applause for a Cloud” - readingintranslation.com/2025/12/08/k...

“She can’t see the depth of Samy’s fear, of the threat to him, of the government, of the violence hidden within the people around her.” In @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Leah Rachel von Essen reviews Osvalde Lewat’s newly translated novel, “The Aquatics” - chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/05/f...

“‘Mockingbird’ fans will recognize many of the faces and places in these pages, albeit in their nascent, underdeveloped forms.” In @therumpus.net‬‬, Acree Graham Macam reviews Harper Lee’s posthumous story and essay collection, “The Land of Sweet Forever” - therumpus.net/2025/12/05/s...

“He wants to make something of himself out of these obscure origins, even if what he creates is a fake; he is like a non-homicidal Tom Ripley.” In @fullstopmag.bsky.social‬‬, Noah Slaughter reviews Juan José Saer’s newly reissued novel, “The Event” - www.full-stop.net/2025/12/01/r...

“Each new piece of the puzzle reveals an increasingly chilling side of Yuna and the extremes to which she will go in her quest for a perfect life.” In @necessaryfiction.com‬‬, Ashley Cowger reviews You-Jeong Jeong’s newly translated novel, “Perfect Happiness” - necessaryfiction.com/reviews/perf...

“Though one may have escaped Maia’s prison for now, one’s heart still mourns behind its walls.” In @southwestreview.bsky.social‬‬, Adrian Van Young reviews Ana Paula Maia’s newly translated novel, “On Earth as It Is Beneath” - southwestreview.com/at-the-edge-...

“Vitangelo is afraid and suspicious of the outside world, someone who sees his mind as essentially severed from it.” In @thenation.com‬‬, Gus O’Connor reviews Luigi Pirandello’s newly translated novel, “One, None, and a Hundred Grand” - www.thenation.com/article/cult...

“Cărtărescu, though, commands his own idiom of uncanny ecstasy, almost as if David Lynch had dramatised the prophetic books of William Blake.” In @financialtimes.com‬‬, Boyd Tonkin reviews Mircea Cărtărescu’s newly translated novel, “Blinding: The Left Wing” - www.ft.com/content/eff7...

“If there is a glimmer of hope in the novel’s bleak conclusion, it is that, as Havel observed, individuals are the system.” In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Cory Oldweiler reviews Krisztina Tóth’s newly translated novel, “Eye of the Monkey” - lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-po...

“As ‘Women, Seated’ moves into its final act, arrivals and incursions in the house bring both the cold sting of reality and fresh delusions.” In @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Angus Stewart reviews Zhang Yueran’s newly translated novel, “Women, Seated” - asianreviewofbooks.com/women-seated...

British playwright Tom Stoppard has died aged 88 - www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Turpeinen’s writing has an eerie way of showing us, rather than telling, how tightly an iron chain links human advancement to earthly destruction.” In @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Hannah Korbel reviews Iida Turpeinen’s translated novel, “Beasts of the Sea” - chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/26/b...

“Říhová’s writing is strongest when she zooms in on the mundane terrors of her story and falters only when she becomes too abstruse.” In @wirobooks.bsky.social‬‬, Mariko Hewer reviews Zuzana Říhová’s newly translated novel, “Playing Wolf” - www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/p...

“‘Trip’ is a combination of narrative and dogma, ultimately playing out to a conclusion of indifference in the face of self-destruction.” In The Metropolitan Review‬‬, Emma Foley reviews Amie Barrodale’s debut novel, “Trip” - metropolitanreview.com/a-novel-in-t...

“This is not true crime, but fake true crime, as one critic dubbed it: The crime happened, but Malcolm’s thoughts and reactions are Burnet’s imagining.” In @theglobeandmail.com‬‬, Ian Brown reviews Graeme Macrae Burnet’s new novel, “Benbecula” - www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

“The tension she sustains – between reverence and satire, irony and submission – gives the book its austere charge.” In @lrb.co.uk‬‬, Josie Mitchell reviews Kate Riley’s debut novel, “Ruth” - www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“The narrative functions both as wish-fulfillment and an act of mourning.” In @worldlittoday.bsky.social‬‬, Hiranmoy Lahiri reviews Akiyuki Nosaka’s newly translated novella, “Grave of the Fireflies” - worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...

“Matsuda’s work fits within an aesthetic of the strange that runs through Japanese fiction, and especially Japanese women writers.” In @fullstopmag.bsky.social‬‬, Kaelie Giffel reviews Aoko Matsuda’s newly translated short story collection, “The Woman Dies” - www.full-stop.net/2025/11/21/r...

“Throughout the stories in ‘The Pelican Child,’ death and environmental destruction are the two truly inescapable facts of modern life.” In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Gideon Leek reviews Joy Williams’s new short story collection, “The Pelican Child” - lareviewofbooks.org/article/our-...

“After a series of cathartic events, Beckett longs for exactly the same mundane daily routines that once trapped him. As in an existentialist play, there is no way out.” In @reviewcanada.bsky.social‬‬, Russell Smith reviews Ian Williams’s new novel, “You’ve Changed” - reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...

“The novel, in general, is very much an exercise in memory, both its composition and its reading” In @wwborders.bsky.social‬‬, Jack Rockwell reviews Solvej Balle’s newly translated novel, “On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)” - wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

“While the poems tend to favor concrete images (building up tidy cairns of them), his poetry’s simplicity is something of a deception.” In @ocreviewofbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Eric Bies reviews Jean Follain’s newly translated poetry collection, “Earthly” - ocreviewofbooks.org/2025/11/08/j...

“Wielding his own badger’s gray brush, Carr shows the distance across centuries being bridged by literally the thinnest of strands.” In @publicbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Daniel Hack revisits J. L. Carr’s novella “A Month in the Country” - www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-j-l-...

“The persistent tension between timeless gods and transient humans mirrors Pavese’s own struggles with despair and isolation” In Reading in Translation‬‬, Elena Borelli reviews Cesare Pavese’s newly translated story collection, “The Leucothea Dialogues” - readingintranslation.com/2025/11/10/c...

“The fatalism with which the characters view their own lives is complicated by their lack of regret.” In Asymptote Journal‬‬, Maya Rubin reviews Terao Tetsuya’s newly translated short story collection, “Spent Bullets” - www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/11...

“The Inn…’s conceit is clever, its detailing macabre even while larded with a knowing absurdity.” In Buzz Magazine‬‬, Noel Gardner reviews Cledwyn Hughes’s newly reissued novella, “The Inn Closes For Christmas” - www.buzzmag.co.uk/inn-closes-c...

“It is almost a philosophical novel, but one that overflows with character, beauty, and wit.” In @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Ben Woollard reviews Yoko Tawada’s newly translated novel, “Archipelago of the Sun” - asianreviewofbooks.com/archipelago-...

“Dying, ageing and the remembrance of things past are the book’s themes, and yet elegiac isn’t quite the right word for its tone.” In @financialtimes.com‬‬, Shahidha Bari reviews Salman Rushdie’s new short story collection, “The Eleventh Hour” - www.ft.com/content/3919...

“Murnane wants us to look into some small, dark place within ourselves, find what’s living there, and maybe even find a way to speak with it.” In Rain Taxi Review‬‬, Sam Tiratto reviews Gerald Murnane’s newly reissued novel, “Barley Patch” - raintaxi.com/barley-patch/

“Her prose displays a dazzling imagination—full of bizarre characters, jarring actions, and promising, humorous setups.” In @olreview.bsky.social‬‬, Brock Covington reviews Alla Gorbunova’s newly translated short story collection, “(Th)ings and (Th)oughts” - openlettersreview.com/posts/things...