“There is no triumph over hardship via collective action. There is, instead, a difficult, unending negotiation sharpened by deprivation.” In @thebeliever.net, Sally Olds reviews Fausta Cialente’s newly translated novel, “A Very Cold Winter” - www.thebeliever.net/a-review-of-...

“Bohman excels at naming complicated feelings tied to memory, aging, and trauma in ways that are concrete and vivid but also concise.” In @necessaryfiction.com, Gabrielle Stecher Woodward reviews Therese Bohman’s newly translated novel, “Mount Verity” - necessaryfiction.com/reviews/moun...

“Gass easily stands with James Joyce or Robert Coover, and Kohler is like if Humbert Humbert found politics instead of children.” In Newcity Chicago, Annette LePique reviews William Gass’ newly reissued novel, “The Tunnel” - lit.newcity.com/2026/04/09/w...

“Riley’s novels are spare, but entirely three-dimensional, however much remains hidden beneath the surface.” In @review31.bsky.social, Martha Sprackland reviews Gwendoline Riley’s new novel, “The Palm House” - review31.co.uk/article/view...

“Hasbún wants us to confront a situation that offers no epiphany or closure, but rather the qualities of limitation.” In On The Seawall, Ruth Joffre reviews Rodrigo Hasbún’s newly translated novel, “The Invisible Years” - www.ronslate.com/on-the-invis...

“Ryan is one of the most protean, prolific short story writers of the last quarter-century that you (probably) haven’t heard of.” In @clereviewbooks.bsky.social, Michael Knapp reviews David Ryan’s new short story collection, “Alligator” - clereviewofbooks.com/david-ryan-a...

“Khatibi structures his narrative as a polyphonic tapestry, weaving together multiple perspectives.” In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, Amany Alsiefy reviews Saïd Khatibi’s newly translated novel, “The End of the Sahara” - lareviewofbooks.org/article/alge...

“There is no hint of condescension in her writing, which is part of its difficulty and its power.” In @newyorker.com, Kristen Roupenian reviews Marie NDiaye’s newly translated novel, “The Witch” - www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

2026 Dublin Literary Award shortlist announced - dublinliteraryaward.ie/features/new...

“The narrative threads can be hard to grasp. As is typical of Lemann, there’s not much by way of setup.” In @thecut.com, Cat Zhang reviews Nancy Lemann’s new novel, “The Oyster Diaries” - www.thecut.com/article/revi...

“A story that honors a tumultuous past, ‘I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For’ oozes living history.” In @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social, Sophie M. Houck reviews Bsrat Mezghebe’s debut novel, “I Hope You Find What You're Looking For” - www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

“It is a book to inhale: indefatigably entertaining, it seizes the reader’s attention from beginning to end.” In @austbookreview.bsky.social, Jonathan Ricketson reviews Steve Toltz’s new novel, “A Rising of the Lights” - www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

“Released in Japan in 2015, ‘Hooked’ predates ‘Butter’ by several years and suggests an earlier stage of Yuzuki’s fiction sensibilities.” In @japantimes.co.jp, Mike Fu reviews Asako Yuzuki’s newly translated novel, “Hooked” - www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026...

Polish author Wiesław Myśliwski has died aged 94 - www.polskieradio.pl/395/7791/Art...

“Without knowing how the characters react to various tragedies, readers must imagine their own verdict.” In @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social, Cait O'Neill reviews Colm Tóibín’s new short story collection, “The News from Dublin” - chireviewofbooks.com/2026/03/31/t...

“There’s a madness in the truth of life: that the body’s experience can seem trapped in a jar for observation while the self goes on.” In @rhinopoetry.bsky.social, Robert Eric Shoemaker reviews Antonio Gamoneda’s newly translated poetry collection, “Burn the Losses” - rhinopoetry.org/reviews/anto...

International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist announced - thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

“He’s a man of his time and a victim in his own right, someone whose suffering made him susceptible to the worst values of his era.” In @thenation.com, Max Pearl reviews Manuel Mujica Lainez’s newly reissued novel, “Bomarzo” - www.thenation.com/article/cult...

“Raud examines ways in which we can each find our place in the world, whether through intention or chance, or a combination of both.” In The European Literature Network, West Camel reviews Rein Raud’s newly translated novel, “The Sun Script” - www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...

“Mahajan’s Delhi is rendered with an accuracy that feels almost archaeological” In @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social, Vikram Zutshi reviews Karan Mahajan’s new novel, “The Complex” - asianreviewofbooks.com/the-complex-...

“Caregiving becomes both a physical and emotional burden, complicated by the knowledge that much of her displacement traces back to his political actions.” In The Indiependent, Georgia McInnes reviews Kenan Orhan’s debut novel, “The Renovation” - www.indiependent.co.uk/book-review-...

“Here is Woolf at her most unvarnished, obsessed, her most playful and silly and unpolished and free.” In @clereviewbooks.bsky.social, Emma Heath reviews Virginia Woolf’s newly revised story collection, “The Life of Violet” - clereviewofbooks.com/violet-and-v...

2025 National Book Critics Circle Awards winners announced - www.bookcritics.org/2026/03/26/n...

“Voice is paramount in this novel, and translator Amanda Sarasien has fully captured it.” In Reading in Translation, Ilze Duarte reviews Állex Leilla’s newly translated novel, “Springtime in the Bones” - readingintranslation.com/2026/03/23/a...

“Stridsberg clearly intends for the reader to experience the residents’ sense of mental imbalance and alienation, and she succeeds.” In @wirobooks.bsky.social Patricia S. Gormley reviews Sara Stridsberg’s newly translated novel “Beckomberga” www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/b...

“Cagnati’s books portray the experience of being nothing and rejecting the world which has made one nothing.” In Kismet Magazine, Alec Niedenthal reviews Inès Cagnati’s newly translated novel, “Crazy Genie” - kismet-mag.com/reviews/me-y...

“Reis’s poetic style is a model of Horatian clarity, elegantly austere as a Doric column.” In 4Columns, Mark Dery reviews Fernando Pessoa’s newly translated poetry collection, “The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis” - 4columns.org/dery-mark/th...

“Kawakami manipulates the first person perspective to show us how Hana was primed as a young girl to take the path she did in her late teenage years.” In @thenightly.bsky.social, Eloise Budimlich reviews Mieko Kawakami’s newly translated novel, “Sisters in Yellow” - thenightly.com.au/culture/book...

“Originally published in French and translated by Hildegarde Serle, the essence of the story has been captured perfectly.” In Buzz Magazine, Rhianon Holley reviews Camille de Peretti’s newly translated novel, “Portrait Of An Unknown Woman” - www.buzzmag.co.uk/portrait-unk...

“Thomas is the novel’s most exquisitely rendered voice, one that is itself a mysterious instrument of detection, picking up static, minutiae, and other people’s dreams.” In @harpers.bsky.social, Hannah Gold reviews Ben Lerner’s new novel, “Transcription” - harpers.org/archive/2026...

“Mr. Yagoda does a startling good job of conveying the atmosphere of a big city at work, and the realities of the working poor.” In @theseaboardreview.ca, James M. Fisher reviews Ben Yagoda’s debut novel, “Alias O. Henry” - www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/alias-o-he...

“Sami’s previous life is narrated in a general way, with sparse detail. Most of what happens in the present is the disintegration of his mind.” In @theartsfuse.bsky.social, David Mehegan reviews Sinan Antoon’s newly translated novel, “Of Loss and Lavender” - artsfuse.org/325784/book-...

“Oh’s poetry is sometimes described as childlike, and the poems in ‘From Being to Being’ often evoke childhood directly.” In @ltikorea.bsky.social, Zach Savich reviews Oh Eun’s newly translated poetry collection, “From Being to Being” - klwave.or.kr/klw/magazine...

“Like ‘Life of Pi,’ where Martel refers to other castaway stories, ‘Son of Nobody’ employs an old subgenre: the lost and discovered manuscript.” In @olreview.bsky.social, Tom LeClair reviews Yann Martel’s new novel, “Son of Nobody” - openlettersreview.com/posts/son-of...

“Every world opens a door to a new one, to a new life. Her world is unfinished because it’s endless, because we are still weaving our own stories into it.” In the Montreal Review of Books, Roxane Hudon reviews Marilyn Bowering’s new novel, “The Unfinished World” - mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/the-...

“In ‘Those Days,’ an ode to discontent, his typically low-key register hits a note of subdued terror.” In @ocreviewofbooks.bsky.social, Eric Bies reviews Karmelo C. Iribarren’s newly translated poetry collection, “You’ve Heard This One Before” - ocreviewofbooks.org/2026/03/12/k...

“Lots of fundamental questions are raised by ‘The Weathering,’ none of which get satisfactory answers because such answers simply don’t exist.” In @wwborders.bsky.social, Cory Oldweiler reviews Artem Chapeye’s newly translated novel, “The Weathering” - wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

“‘Songs of Love on a December Night’ takes place on conventional Richards turf, with a narrative formula practised to perfection.” In @reviewcanada.bsky.social, Michael W. Higgins reviews David Adams Richards’s new novel, “Songs of Love on a December Night” - reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...

“While their bodies are committed to small, ordinary gestures, the evidence of what they’ve done accumulates around them in soil and scar tissue.” In Asymptote Journal, Jordan Silversmith reviews Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s “Three Stories of Forgetting” - www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/03...

Peruvian author Alfredo Bryce Echenique has died aged 87 - www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Like Anjet Daanje’s ‘The Remembered Soldier’ or Gao Xingjian’s ‘Soul Mountain,’ Wiesław Myśliwski’s narrator reminiscing is triggered by trauma.” In @worldlittoday.bsky.social, Alice-Catherine Carls reviews Wiesław Myśliwski’s novel “Needle’s Eye” - worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/march/n...

“‘There’s No Point in Dying’ is sprawling and occasionally disorienting, featuring a cast of more than three dozen characters” In @southwestreview.bsky.social, Cory Oldweiler reviews Francisco Maciel’s newly translated novel, “There’s No Point in Dying” - southwestreview.com/scrapbook-of...

“Gem proves a character of grit and independence, strength and fierce intelligence.” In @theconversation.com, Shady Cosgrove reviews Eva Hornung’s new novel, “The Minstrels” - theconversation.com/a-wild-girl-...

“The elder’s life story is shaped by the supernatural as much as by love, grief and catastrophe.” In @necessaryfiction.com, Katy Dycus reviews Chi Zijian’s newly reissued novel, “The Last Quarter of the Moon” - necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

“Many of the Borjas Romeros circle around selves that are at odds with the futures their forebears envisioned for them.” In Harvard Review, Jade Bailey Brock reviews Miguel Bonnefoy’s newly translated novel, “The Dream of the Jaguar” - www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...

“Schernikau’s b is both the gaze and the look reflected back upon the voyeur, and also the bystander filming, producing an archive of non-encounters.” In The Brooklyn Rail, Chris Campanioni reviews Ronald M. Schernikau’s newly translated novella, “SMALLTOWNNOVELLA” - brooklynrail.org/2026/03/book...

Portuguese author António Lobo Antunes has died aged 83 - www.euronews.com/culture/2026...

2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist announced - womensprize.com/revealing-th...

“Can Xue’s characters take the world around them in stride—they just keep going, seeming barely perturbed by their inability to connect or understand.” In @fullstopmag.bsky.social, Noah Slaughter reviews Can Xue’s newly translated story collection, “Mother River” - www.full-stop.net/2026/03/02/r...

“All are semi-autobiographical, featuring a male character whose relationship with his mother is a constant theme, if not the focus.” In @commonweal.bsky.social Charles De Wolf reviews Endō Shūsaku’s newly translated story collection “Portraits of a Mother” www.commonwealmagazine.org/endo-portrai...