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- 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
- Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari's The Rainbow, now available in English
- Kim Stanley Robinson's 2015 novel, Aurora
- Three Novellas by Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher, coming from New Vessel Press
- Anthony Powell's first novel, from 1931, Afternoon Men
- A new translation of Maximus of Tyre's Philosophical Orations, in Harvard University Press' Loeb Classical Library
- Sven Holm's 1967 novel Termush, now also out in a US edition
- An Epic by Linnea Axelsson, the August Prize-winning Ædnan
- Takagi Akimitsu's 1965 mystery, The Informer
- Paul Theroux's latest, his novel of young George Orwell, Burma Sahib
- Ukrainian author Tanja Maljartschuk's Forgottenness
- Louisa May Alcott's A Long Fatal Love Chase
- Victor Pelevin's 2006 novel, Empire V: The Prince of Hamlet
- Madeleine Bourdouxhe's 1943 novel, Marie
- A new translation of Kalidasa's The Lineage of the Raghus, in the Murty Classical Library of India
- Mikhail Osorgin's 1928 novel The Riven Heart of Moscow: Sivtsev Vrazhek, now out in a new translation
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