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- Pascal Quignard responds to Hugo von Hofmannsthal's classic text, in The Answer to Lord Chandos
- A collection of stories by Ángel Bonomini, The Novices of Lerna, coming from Transit Books
- The latest from Scarlett Thomas, The Sleepwalkers
- Amélie Nothomb's Les aérostats
- George Sand's 1839 work of gender-confusion, Gabriel
- Johan Harstad's unusual novel-with-endnotes, The Red Handler, now out in English, from Open Letter
- Stefan Żeromski's 1900 novel The Homeless, now out in English, from Paul Dry Books
- A novel shapeshifting as a screenplay by Robert Antoni, Cut Guavas or ... Postscript to the Civilization of the Simians
- Fiston Mwanza Mujila's The Villain's Dance, just out in English, from Deep Vellum
- Philip Roth's 1986 novel, The Counterlife
- Iman Mersal's Traces of Enayat, now also in a US edition
- Monika Zgustová's Véra and Vladimir Nabokov-novel, A Revolver to Carry at Night, just about out in English, from Other Press
- Two collections by Lu Xun, Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk, published together in one volume by Harvard University Press
- Matsumoto Seichō's 1959 mystery, Point Zero, now in English, from Bitter Lemon Press
- Kate Briggs' novel, The Long Form
- A bilingual edition of Mário de Andrade's Hallucinated City, recently re-issued by Sublunary Editions
- Elisa Shua Dusapin's Vladivostok Circus, out from Daunt Books in the UK, and coming from Open Letter in the US
- Milan Tripković's The Club of True Creators, recently out from the new Rossum Press
- Aoyama Michiko's international bestseller, What You are Looking For is in the Library
- Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez's posthumous novella, Until August, just out in English (and every other language ...)
- Bothayna Al-Essa's novel, The Book Censor's Library
- Alejo Carpentier's classic 1953 novel, The Lost Steps, recently out in a new translation
- Iris Murdoch's The Bell
- A collection of Éric Chevillard's Museum Visits, recently out in Yale University Press' Margellos World Republic of Letters-series
- Álvaro Mutis' Maqroll's Prayer and Other Poems
- Aëtius's fascinating compendium, Placita, now out in a one-volume Loeb Classical Library edition
- The eleventh Jack Reacher novel, Lee Child's 2007 Bad Luck and Trouble
- The Precursors of Socialism: Tales and Portraits by Gérard de Nerval, The Illuminated, out from Wakefield Press
- The latest from Diego Marani, his Trieste-novel, The Celestial City
- R.C. Sherriff's 1939 novel, The Hopkins Manuscript, recently also re-issued in the US
- Simin Daneshvar's classic 1969 novel, A Persian Requiem
- Vladimir Sorokin's notorious 1999 novel Blue Lard, finally available in English, from New York Review Books
- Mark Polizzotti on Why Surrealism Matters, recently out from Yale University Press
- Joseph Kessel's 1928 novel, Belle de Jour -- the basis for the Luis Buñuel film
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