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- The next installment in Solvej Balle's septology, On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)
- Daniel Hahn on The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation, in If This Be Magic
- Alastair Reynolds' recent novel, Halcyon Years
- Herta Müller in conversation with Angelika Klammer, about Writing and Surviving Ceaușescu's Romania, in The Village on the Edge of the World
- Cho Yeeun's Teddy Bears Never Die
- A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines by W. Patrick McCray, README
- Fahmida Riaz's 2017 novel, Fortress of the Forgotten Ones, now in English, from Open Letter
- Kawakami Mieko's latest, Sisters in Yellow, now out in English
- Ignatius T. Mabasa's The Mad -- the first in the University of Georgia Press' African Language Literatures in Translation-series
- A new, unabridged (and three-volume) translation of Yoshikawa Eiji's 1939 epic, Musashi
- Anna Albinus' Revolver Christi, now in English, from Dedalus
- Eduardo Halfon's Tarantula, now also in English
- Halldór Laxness' A Parish Chronicle, now in English (from Archipelago, in the US; coming out in the UK in July)
- Choi Jin-young's Hunger, now also coming out in a US edition
- Ian McEwan's latest, What We Can Know
- Sacha Bronwasser's novel, Listen
- The fourth volume in Karl Ove Knausgaard's The Morning Star-series, The School of Night
- Alessandro Robecchi's (multiple-)mystery novel, Broken Truths
- Viktor Domontovych's 1928 novel The Girl with the Teddy Bear, now in English, from Dedalus
- Philip Owens' 1936 novel, imagining a 'Will Shakespere' struggling in (then-)contemporary times Picture of Nobody, a McNally Editions rediscovery
- Jacek Dukaj's colossal slab of Ice
- Alexander Voloshin's mock-epic of Exile in Hollywood (and more), Sidetracked
- A collection of poems by Irma Pineda, Stolen Flower, in a trilingual edition -- Didxazá, Spanish, and English -- recently out from Yale University Press in their Margellos World Republic of Letters-series
- Dornford Yates' 1927 adventure tale, Blind Corner
- Joris-Karl Huysmans's 1881 novel Domesticity, recently out in a new translation, from Wakefield Press
- A new translation of Simone de Beauvoir's 1966 novel, The Image of Her, now also out in a US edition
- Emma Tholozan's Self-Worth, coming in English in April (UK) and May (US)
- 100 number poems by Gerhard Rühm, in the folded clock
- Thornton Wilder's first novel, The Cabala, which came out a hundred years ago
- Kurahashi Yumiko's twisted little novella, Scorpions, now in English, from Wakefield Press
- Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine in the novel-within-a-novel, The Child's Child
- Gore Vidal's 1998 novel, The Smithsonian Institution
- Ivan Franko's Boryslav in Flames
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