Fiction

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

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  Sex in the City: Istanbul 1923

  A cheerful collection of Turkish erotica, translated by Burcu Karahan, offers insights into early 20th-century sexuality in Istanbul.

  Kaya GençFeb 17

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Fiction

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  Until the Next Grave Is Dug

  On Urszula Honek’s bleak debut story collection, the Booker long-listed ‘White Nights,’ newly translated by Kate Webster.

  Cory OldweilerFeb 10

  • Fiction

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  What Comes First, the House or the Haunting?

  ‘Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora,’ a new anthology edited by Kristy Park Kulski, uses storytelling to demonstrate why ‘the ghosts of our futures cannot just be entities that lurk in the background.’

  Jered MabaquiaoFeb 7

  • Fiction

  • Cultural Studies

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  A Void Filled with Possibilities

  The protagonist of Antônio Xerxenesky’s novel ‘An Infinite Sadness,’ newly translated by Daniel Hahn, searches for ‘something beyond psychological solutions’ at a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps.

  Rachel GerryFeb 5

  • Fiction

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  Misaimed Kindnesses and Cruelties

  Camille Bordas discusses her new story collection, her writing process, and why anxiety fuels her as a person and a writer.

  Lily FelsenthalFeb 5

  • Fiction

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  Loners and Assassins

  Tom Lutz’s new novel ‘Chagos Archipelago’ finds unexpected heart in the adventures of geopolitical operatives and globe-trotting fuckups.

  Jerry StahlFeb 3

  • Fiction

  • Noir

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  An Uneasy Polemic

  George Saunders’s latest ghost story, ‘Vigil,’ is a fanciful, tedious megaphone for its author, rather than for its characters.

  Kazuo RobinsonJan 27

  • Fiction

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  Life as It Should Be

  Devon Halliday on the lure of reality TV in Stephen Fishbach’s novel ‘Escape!’

  Devon HallidayJan 27

  • Fiction

  • Television

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  Walking Through the Valley of Teenage Rebellion

  Madeline Cash talks with Hannah Tishkoff about how her upbringing in the Valley shaped her debut novel ‘Lost Lambs.’

  Hannah TishkoffJan 26

  • Fiction

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  We Lived Inside Sadness Itself

  On Brenda Navarro’s novel ‘Eating Ashes,’ newly translated by Megan McDowell.

  Cory OldweilerJan 20

  • Fiction

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  Haunted by Silence

  In Elisa Shua Dusapin’s novel ‘The Old Fire,’ newly translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins, two sisters must find a way to communicate without words.

  Grace LindenJan 20

  • Fiction

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  Daddy Reissues

  Dinah Brooke’s 1971 debut novel ‘Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady,’ newly reissued, explores a young woman’s journey to realizing that ‘we should give up the charade’ of ‘heterosexual relationships and the bourgeois family structure.’

  Sophie PooleJan 17

  • Fiction