“At first glance,” thinks Eleanor, the anxious millennial protagonist from Seattle author Kim Fu’s new novel, “The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts” (out March 3 from Tin House), “she thought it was a ...

Editor's note: This report is about suicide and suicidal ideation. The South Orange & Maplewood community in New Jersey has been through some very tough times. Schools superintendent Jason Bing says ...

Maryam Mahdavi has translated the book and Qoqnoos Publishing House has brought it out in 204 pages, IBNA reported. It was first published under this title in 1778, although it had anonymously ...

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The opening lines of Svetlana Satchkova’s debut English-language novel, The Undead, see the protagonist, Maya—an unassuming woman in her 30s, making her directorial debut with a horror movie—eating a ...

Two centuries after its scandal and censorship, Bajza’s René reaches readers worldwide — and still startles with its wit and ambition. “There have been many attempts to read Bajza’s novel to the end, ...

When Anton Hur, an author and a translator, read the Korean translation of his first novel, “Toward Eternity” (2024), the first thing he felt was relief — relief that it didn't seem like something ...

Chinese anime, or donghua, has rapidly gained prominence internationally in recent years. With its unique aesthetic that blends traditional Asian art with contemporary animation, donghua offers ...

The Great Gatsby was not a first-time hit. When it was published by Scribner’s in 1925, it was generally reviewed positively but often with the caveat that it wasn’t as successful a portrait of the ...

Having recently found widespread recognition in the United States, one of Latin America’s greatest living authors has decided to challenge her newfound readers with a brilliant and bewildering novel ...

When millions of Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews perished in the Holocaust, their stories, culture and way of life were wiped out with them. One survivor, the novelist Chaim Grade, made it his ...