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- Rita Indiana's novel, Tentacle
- Ayu Utami's landmark 1998 novel, Saman
- Leo Marks' screenplay for the classic Michael Powell film, Peeping Tom
- Lasha Bugadze's 2018 Saba Literary Award-winning novel, პატარა ქვეყანა
- Finally, another Ogawa Yoko novel -- The Memory Police, coming in August
- Sinan Antoon's The Book of Collateral Damage, just out in Yale University Press' Margellos World Republic of Letters-series
- Another (not yet translated ...) novel by Amélie Nothomb, Le crime du comte Neville
- East German author Brigitte Reimann's Diaries, 1955-1963, I Have No Regrets
- Five examples of Exemplary Departures by Gabrielle Wittkop
- Bram Dehouck's Sleepless Summer, just in time for the summer, from World Editions
- Neal Stephenson's latest, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
- Kawakami Hiromi's 2003 novel, The Ten Loves of Nishino, now just (about) out in English (and to be published in the UK as ... The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino)
- Cameron McCabe's 1937 classic, The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
- Georgian author Archil Kikodze's Tbilisi-novel, სამხრეთული სპილო
- Anne Serre's The Governesses, a finalist for this year's Best Translated Book Award and now out in a UK edition as well
- Flemish author Hubert Lampo's The Coming of Joachim Stiller, in a new translation by Paul Vincent, just out from Valancourt Books
- Louis Cha (Jin Yong)'s massive wuxia novel, The Deer and the Cauldron, in three volumes from Oxford University Press
- Georges Simenon's Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse, in a new translation, in the Penguin Classics series
- Kurt Tucholsky's Castle Gripsholm in Michael Hofmann's translation, just reïssued by New York Review Books
- Paolo Maurensig's short novel, A Devil Comes to Town, just out from World Editions
- Nozawa Hisashi's Deep Red
- Margriet de Moor's novella Sleepless Night, just out from New Vessel Press
- Julien Green's 1927 novel, The Closed Garden (now published as Adrienne Mesurat)
- Yannick Haenel's prize-winning Hold Fast Your Crown
- Jonathan Coe's recent novel, Middle England
- Esther Gerritsen's Craving
- Selected Poems by Serhiy Zhadan, What We Live For, What We Die For, in Yale University Press' Margellos World Republic of Letters series
- Otto Julius Bierbaum's 1908 novella, Samalio Pardulus, with illustrations by Alfred Kubin, in a lovely little Wakefield Press edition
- Brazilian author Tony Bellotto's Bellini and the Sphinx
- Christine Wunnicke's novel, The Fox and Dr. Shimamura
- Marcus Du Sautoy on Art and Innovation in the Age of AI, in The Creativity Code
- Louis Lüthi on alphabet books, in A Die With Twenty-Six Faces
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