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• Richard Condon's 1974 thriller, Winter Kills
  
  
• Mishima Yukio's 1950 novel, Thirst for Love
  
  
• James Bailey on The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark, in Like a Cat Loves a Bird
  
  
• Amélie Nothomb's (briefly-)back-to-Japan novel, L'impossible retour
  
  
• Len Deighton's 1974 novel, Spy Story
  
  
• Joanna Kavenna's latest novel, Seven or, How to Play a Game Without Rules
  
  
• Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize-winning novel, Orbital
  
  
• Stig Sæterbakken's Self-Control, soon to be re-issued by Dalkey Archive Press
  
  
• Laura B. McGrath on Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction, in Middlemen
  
  
• Gwendoline Riley's latest, The Palm House
  
  
• Caroline Bicks' account of My Year of Fear with Stephen King, in Monsters in the Archives
  
  
• 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

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