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  • Bret Easton Ellis' notorious American Psycho

  • Jo Kyung-Ran's 2010 novel Blowfish, now out in English

  • J.M.Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos consider Speaking in Tongues

  • Liza Tully's The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant, just about out

  • A new Anthology of North Korean Fiction, Hidden Heroes

  • A new translation of Milindapañha, in the Murty Classical Library of India-series, The Questions of Milinda

  • A collection of Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets, At the Louvre

  • Mwalimu Johnnie MacViban's 2021 novel, Twilight of Crooks

  • Valerian Pidmohylnyi's 1928 novel, The City, now out in English in the Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature-series

  • José Eduardo Agualusa's The Living and the Rest, now also out in a US edition

  • Walter Satterthwait's 1991 novel, Wilde West

  • Stéphane Mallarmé's grand but unfinished attempt at writing The Book

  • Tawada Yoko's Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, in Exophony, now out in English

  • Daniele Del Giudice's A Fictional Inquiry, forthcoming in English, from New Vessel Press

  • An Early Chinese Science Fiction Novel, Wu Jianren's New Story of the Stone -- a sequel (of sorts) to Cao Xueqin's classic, The Story of the Stone

  • Tanzanian author Euphrase Kezilahabi's 1971 novel, Rosa Mistika, now available in English, in Yale University Press' The Margellos World Republic of Letters-series

  • Juan de Mena's 1444 epic The Labyrinth of Fortune, finally available in English, in a bilingual edition from Harvard University Press' Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library-series

  • "The Babylonian Epic of Creation", Enuma Elish, in a new translation and edition, the first in the new The Library of Babylonian Literature-series

  • Vivek Shanbhag's Sakina's Kiss, now also out in US and UK editions

  • Matsuie Masashi's The Summer House (coming out in the UK as: Summer at Mount Asama)

  • Miguel Delibes' 1981 novel, The Holy Innocents, now in English, in Yale University Press' The Margellos World Republic of Letters-series

  • Baalu Girma's 1983 novel Oromay, now available in English -- a rare translation from the Amharic

  • Tom Comitta offers both The Most Wanted and Unwanted Novels in People's Choice Literature, coming soon from Columbia University Press

  • A new translation of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette's The Innocent Libertine, from Dedalus

  • Notes from a Lost Manuscript: Peter Cornell's 1987 work, The Ways of Paradise, recently out in English, from Fitzcarraldo Editions

  • Nezami Ganjavi's Khosrow and Shirin, now in a Penguin Classics edition

  • The Biography of a Masterpiece and its Maker by Zachary Leader, Ellmann's Joyce

  • Brigid Brophy's 1956 novel, The King of a Rainy Country, coming out in a new edition from McNally Editions

  • Anjet Daanje's novel The Remembered Soldier

  • Egon Hostovský's prize-winning 1935 novel, The Arsonist, in a re-issued edition from Twisted Spoon Press

  • The latest from Murata Sayaka -- well, her 2015 novel, Vanishing World, now available in English

  • Fujisawa Shuhei's 1988 novel Semishigure, now available in English, from Honford Star

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