“In this difficult but rewarding novel, Pacheco expertly weaves the delusions, paranoia, and urban fear which defined the global lockdown period.” In @necessaryfiction.com‬‬, kay kemp reviews Ana Paula Pacheco’s newly translated novel, “Pandora” - necessaryfiction.com/reviews/pand...

Dutch author Cees Nooteboom has died, aged 92 - www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

“Through her own mythmaking, Rivera Garza affirms the role that fiction has in establishing truths as they loom in the cultural imagination.” In Cleaver Magazine‬‬, Dylan Cook reviews Cristina Rivera Garza’s newly translated novel, “Autobiography of Cotton” - www.cleavermagazine.com/autobiograph...

“Music, her first vocation, nourished the keen attention to structure, pattern, and verbal craft that undergirds her work.” In Harvard Review‬‬, Sarah Kafatou reviews Ellen Bryant Voigt’s “Collected Poems” - www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...

“As this book so amply demonstrates, he remains one of his artform’s most ingenious practitioners.” In @ocreviewofbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Eric Bies reviews Simon Armitage’s new poetry collection, “New Cemetery” - ocreviewofbooks.org/2026/02/07/s...

“‘An Infinite Sadness’ occupies this dreamlike space, the way it makes possible discrete kinds of meaning.” In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Rachel Gerry reviews Antônio Xerxenesky’s newly translated novel, “An Infinite Sadness” - lareviewofbooks.org/article/anto...

“Her fictions are tightly woven, intertwining multiple themes, sometimes within a given paragraph.” In @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Rick Henry reviews Yumiko Kurahashi’s newly translated novel, “Scorpions” - asianreviewofbooks.com/scorpions-by...

“The novel is its own self-contained loop, a perpetual present where no one grows up too quickly and no one dies.” In The Brooklyn Rail‬‬, Meghan Racklin reviews Helle Helle’s newly translated novel, “they” - brooklynrail.org/2026/02/book...

“Movement and travel in the novel are, thus, not just a matter of personal refuge, but a nagging ethical problem.” In Kismet Magazine‬‬, Mathilde Hjertholm Nielsen reviews Marina Stepanova’s newly translated novel, “The Disappearing Act” - kismet-mag.com/reviews/trav...

“Hotschnig’s prose, so splendidly translated by Lewis, has that quality of intimacy that only the best literary works possess.” In @theartsfuse.bsky.social‬‬, Roberta Silman reviews Alois Hotschnig’s newly translated novel, “My Mother’s Silver Fox” - artsfuse.org/323774/book-...

“The model of art-making at play here is purgative, externalization intended as a means to forgetting.” In @clereviewbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Jon Repetti reviews Tatiana Tibuleac’s newly translated novel, “The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes” - clereviewofbooks.com/tatiana-tibu...

“Urbanski’s stories turn the world outside-in, boldly exposing the psychic core of what is unsaid and unseen in all its brilliant, hard-to-define strangeness.” In Rain Taxi Review‬‬, Alissa Hattman reviews Debbie Urbanski’s new story collection, “Portalmania” - raintaxi.com/portalmania/

Lebanese poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata has died, aged 88 - today.lorientlejour.com/article/1493...

“Blais’s virtuosity lies in her ability to form a rich and textured harmony through disparate voices.” In @reviewcanada.bsky.social‬‬, Sophia Ohler reviews Marie-Claire Blais’s newly translated novel, “Together by the Sea” - reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...

“Violence is always just off the page, rationed until it erupts in a final section that will live long in every reader’s memory.” In @newstatesman1913.bsky.social‬‬, Nikhil Krishnan reviews Daniyal Mueenuddin’s debut novel, “This Is Where the Serpent Lives” - www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

“‘The Correspondent’ is an epistolary novel par excellence, a tale told in letters that is staunchly, defiantly old-school, in form and message.” In @slate.com‬‬, Rebecca Onion reviews Virginia Evans’ debut novel, “The Correspondent” - slate.com/culture/2026...

“The story questions how we relate to one another in contemporary society, where we are taught to make self-serving, safe choices.” In @japantimes.co.jp‬‬, Grace En-yi Ting reviews Emi Yagi’s newly translated novel, “When the Museum is Closed” - www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026...

“Gafori’s selections emphasize Rumi’s concerns with form and structure, as well as his concern with the limits of language and writerly expression.” In @fullstopmag.bsky.social‬‬, Joanne Diaz reviews Rumi’s newly translated poetry collection, “Water” - www.full-stop.net/2026/01/26/r...

“In the brief, dazzling ‘Vigil,’ Saunders’ vigilant eyes are wide open. It’s a virtuoso achievement, an immersive experience for the reader.” In @latimes.com‬‬, Robert Allen Papinchak reviews George Saunders’ new novel “Vigil” - www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

“In ‘Infinite Jest,’ he’s going for the least solipsistic rendering of humanity he can pull off, via more than a hundred borrowed selves.” In @newyorker.com‬‬, Hermione Hoby revisits David Foster Wallace’s novel “Infinite Jest” - www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“These novels are less stories than mechanisms of recursion: sites where language decomposes, mutates, and survives by consuming itself.” In @hfr.bsky.social‬‬, David Vichnar reviews Louis Armand’s “Golemgrad Pentalogy” - heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/01/12/g...

“Bazyar captures the contours of his youthful confidence, at once earnest and arrogant.” In @necessaryfiction.com‬‬, Megan Peck Shub reviews Shida Bazyar’s newly translated novel, “The Nights are Quiet in Tehran” - necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

“Despite raising a multitude of questions, it also offers valuable insight into the depths of human nature.” In Buzz Magazine, Rhianon Holley reviews Rhett Davis’s new novel, “Arborescence” - www.buzzmag.co.uk/arborescence...

“Cooper’s novels remind us that an artistic life is all about practice, a way of living: observation, questions, uncertainty.” In @review31.bsky.social‬‬, Thomas Chadwick reviews Jeremy Cooper’s new novel, “Discord” - review31.co.uk/article/view...

“‘Tangerinn’ meanders through scenes of childhood, London, and the present, much like how our minds are layered with selves.” In Asymptote Journal‬‬, Amber Ruth Paulen reviews Emanuela Anechoum’s newly translated novel, “Tangerinn” - www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/01...

2025 National Book Critics Circle Awards finalists announced - www.bookcritics.org/2026/01/20/n...

“Throughout the story, his characters’ meditations on courage are motivating and clear; near the end, they become downright transcendent.” In @climbing-magazine.bsky.social‬‬, Sam MacIlwaine reviews Gabriel Tallent’s new novel, “Crux” - www.climbing.com/culture-clim...

“Omission matters, Hanišová suggests, because the loss of language, and the inability to articulate an experience, stem from greater losses.” In @wwborders.bsky.social‬‬, Katy Dycus reviews Viktorie Hanišová’s newly translated novel, “The Mushroom Gatherer” - wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

“Bennett is the master of dilation, as small interactions blossom and distort in the narrator’s thoughts.” In @theageaustralia.bsky.social‬‬, Gretchen Shirm reviews Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel, “Big Kiss, Bye-Bye” - www.theage.com.au/culture/book...

“While each story holds up, a reader is most impressed by the various voices Jacobsen conjures to tell these stories.” In @popmatters.com‬‬, John Loonam reviews Devin Jacobsen’s debut short story collection, “The Summer We Ate Off the China” - www.popmatters.com/summer-we-at...

“‘What remains?’ the book’s title asks. After emigration, after history, after death, exile, and transformation, what remains is life.” In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Michael Barron reviews Brais Lamela’s newly translated novel, “What Remains” - lareviewofbooks.org/article/what...

“The omniscience displayed at a couple of points in ‘Saraswati’ is intuitive knowledge on a startlingly grand scale, bursting the banks of any single consciousness.” In @lrb.co.uk‬‬, Adam Mars-Jones reviews Gurnaik Johal’s debut novel, “Saraswati” - www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“Everywhere in this book, the non-human rules the page, it is the remaining connection, those who have always been.” In @clereviewbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Olga Mikolaivna reviews Anna Malihon’s newly translated poetry collection, “Girl with a Bullet” - clereviewofbooks.com/anna-malihon...

“‘Scavengers’ has at its heart the compelling and timeless idea of the quest—for treasure, truth, material goods, comfort, enlightenment.” In Newcity‬‬, Amanda Norton reviews Kathleen Boland’s debut novel, “Scavengers” - lit.newcity.com/2026/01/12/s...

“The thread symbolizing human connection runs through all the stories in this collection” In @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Kalpana Mohan reviews Razia Sajjad Zaheer’s newly translated story collection, “Darkness and Other Stories” - asianreviewofbooks.com/darkness-and...

“While Tanaka’s roots can be traced to classic Surrealism, the worlds he creates are unlike any other.” In Rain Taxi‬‬, John Bradley reviews Yuki Tanaka’s debut poetry collection, “Chronicle of Drifting” - raintaxi.com/chronicle-of...

“You emerge suddenly hyperaware of the relationality of all things, of our inevitable place in the past and present of existence.” In @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Molly B. Nash reviews Laura Restrepo’s newly translated novel, “Song of Ancient Lovers” - chireviewofbooks.com/2026/01/05/r...

“His view of the world is systematically cruel: it is merely the miserable stage for his triumph or failure.” In 4Columns‬‬, Reinaldo Laddaga reviews Karl Ove Knausgaard’s newly translated novel, “The School of Night” - 4columns.org/laddaga-rein...

“Is ‘Galápagos’ an angry novel? Perhaps it has every reason to be: Vélez’s unabashedly lucid writing shows us the dangers of keeping silent.” In The Masters Review‬‬, Zara Karschay reviews Fátima Vélez’s newly translated novel, “Galápagos” - mastersreview.com/book-review-...

“The book’s tone is grim but leavened with flashes of humor, examples of the famous ‘Berliner Schnauze,’ coarse wit.” In On the Seawall‬‬, Dorian Stuber reviews Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s newly translated novel, “Berlin Shuffle” - www.ronslate.com/berlin-shuff...

“This interlacing of tones bestows the collection with tremendous richness and attests to the writer’s versability.” In @worldlittoday.bsky.social‬‬, Irene Marques reviews Olinda Beja’s newly translated story collection, “The Shepherd’s House” - worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...

“The message is obscure, the details half-memorable, but the chill of the fog remains.” In @necessaryfiction.com‬‬, Noelle McManus reviews Daniele del Giudici’s newly translated novel, “A Fictional Inquiry” - necessaryfiction.com/reviews/a-fi...

“From the outset, the reader knows things are going to end very darkly indeed, and any summary can only scrape the surface of this majestic book.” In @thespectator1828.bsky.social‬‬, Stuart Kelly reviews Mark Z. Danielewski’s new novel, “Tom’s Crossing” - spectator.com/article/a-su...

“These poems pour liquid bias and powdered syntax into the container of the page so that language begins to sprawl like a science fair volcano.” In @fullstopmag.bsky.social‬‬, a.Monti reviews Liesl Ujvary’s newly translated poetry collection, “Good & Safe” - www.full-stop.net/2025/12/31/r...

“Chung’s empathy is infectious and extends not just to the collection’s victims, but even to many of its ghosts.” In @wirobooks.bsky.social‬‬, Karl Straub reviews Bora Chung’s newly translated novel, “Midnight Timetable” - www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/m...

“Though ‘Analog Days’ reads from time to time like generic autofiction, it steers clear of the genre’s fixation on the figure of the author.” In @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social‬‬, Benjamin Flaumenhaft reviews Damion Searls’ debut novella, “Analog Days” - www.zyzzyva.org/2025/12/29/r...

“He doesn’t know what’s ahead, but he knows what’s behind hasn’t felt right for a long time.” In @sfchronicle.com‬‬, Michelle Kicherer reviews Ben Markovits’ new novel, “The Rest of Our Lives” - www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

“Gagńe’s writing style is heavily engaged in the senses.” In @thebcreview.bsky.social‬‬, Kenna Clifford reviews Mirielle Gagńe’s newly translated novel, “Horsefly” - thebcreview.ca/2025/12/28/2...

“Reading the work that Howe has produced over the past half century, one marvels at the consistency and depth of her inquiry.” In @lrb.co.uk‬‬, Ange Mlinko reviews Susan Howe’s new poetry collection, “Penitential Cries” - www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“This feeling of being lost, in-between, permeates many of these stories.” In @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Leah Rachel von Essen reviews Elena Garro’s newly translated short story collection, “The Week of Colors” - chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/10/t...