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- Kurt Palm's 2010 mystery Bad F**king, not yet translated into English
- Qudan Rie's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel, Sympathy Tower Tokyo
- Georgi Gospodinov's latest novel, Death and the Gardener -- already out in the UK, and coming to the US in October
- A Novel of Food and Murder by Yuzuki Asako, Butter
- A collection of Gerhard Rühm's mini dramas and short prose, cake & prostheses, recently in English from Twisted Spoon Press
- The Pearlsong, the first volume in the new Texts and Translations of Transcendence and Transformation-series from Center for the Study of World Religions and Harvard University Press
- Another Jack Reacher thriller, from Lee Child, One Shot, from 2005
- Honoré de Balzac's The Girl with the Golden Eyes, recently re-issued by New York Review Books
- Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau, on How the Gaokao Shapes China, in The Highest Exam
- Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's last novel, The Laboratory -- out now as a stand-alone from the new Chowringhee Press
- A collection of stories by Goderdzi Chokheli, Fish Letters
- A new novel from Yasmina Reza, Serge
- 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
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