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- Yashpal's 1945 Hindi novel, Divya
- Ruth Rendell's A Sight for Sore Eyes
- Phillipa K. Chong on Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times, in Inside the Critics' Circle
- Hermann Burger's 1970 novel Lokalbericht, first published posthumously in 2016
- Philippe Lançon on Surviving Charlie Hebdo, in Disturbance
- Célia Houdart's novel, Quarry, now in English, from Dalkey Archive Press
- Mihail Sebastian's 1935 novel, The Town with Acacia Trees, now in English from Aurora Metro Books
- Marion Poschmann's Man Booker International Prize-longlisted The Pine Islands
- Cuban author Marcial Gala's The Black Cathedral
- Shokoofeh Azar's Stella Prize-shortlisted novel, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
- Brigitte Reimann's Tagebücher 1964-1970, Alles schmeckt nach Abschied -- not yet translated, but apparently in the works
- Edogawa Rampo's 1931 novel Gold Mask, pitting his amateur detective Akechi Kogorō against Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin
- Donna Zuckerberg on Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age, in Not All Dead White Men
- Rodrigo Fresán's 2018 Best Translated Book Award-winning novel, The Invented Part
- Barry N. Malzberg's 1974 novel, The Destruction of the Temple
- Jan Kjærstad's Berge, recently out from Norvik Press
- Nicholas Mosley's 1965 novel, Accident
- Amélie Nothomb's Les prénoms épicènes
- John Franklin Bardin's 1978 novel, Purloining Tiny
- A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China by Li Yu, A Couple of Soles, just out from Columbia University Press
- Inès Cagnati's 1973 novel, Free Day, just out in English from New York Review Books
- Alberto Manguel on Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends, in Fabulous Monsters
- Brice Matthieussent's novel, Revenge of the Translator
- Endo Shusaku's 1974 novel, When I Whistle
- A Jack Reacher novel from 2010, Lee Child's 61 Hours
- The anthology All That is Evident is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo 1963-2018, edited by Ian Monk and Daniel Levin Becker
- Two novels by Yuz Aleshkovsky, Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage, now in English in the Columbia University Press Russian Library-series
- Pierre Louÿs' 1898 novel The Woman and the Puppet, the basis of the Josef von Sternberg film starring Marlene Dietrich, The Devil is a Woman, and Luis Buñuel's That Obscure Object of Desire
- Ismat Chughtai's 1944 Urdu classic, The Crooked Line
- The first in Sara Gran's series, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
- Complete in English for the first time, the Marquis de Sade's Aline and Valcour or, the Philosophical Novel, just out from Contra Mundum Press
- The most recently translated novel by this year's Nobel laureate, Peter Handke, The Great Fall
- More from Ogawa Yoko, her 人質の朗読会
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