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June 2025

LOVERS OF FRANZ K. by Burhan Sönmez
Translated by Sami Hêzil
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LOVE by Maayan Eitan
Translated by Maayan Eitan
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THE ASSAULT by Harry Mulisch
Translated by Claire Nicolas White
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THE COUNTRY WILL BRING US NO PEACE by Matthieu Simard
Translated by Pablo Strauss
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CELEBRATION by Damir Karakaš
Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać
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May 2025

BITTER WATER OPERA by Nicolette Polek
Adrift in her unfulfilling life, Gia writes to a woman she greatly admires: Marta Beckett. A peculiar footnote to recent American history, Beckett, a…
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SMALL BOAT by Vincent Delecroix
Translated by Helen Stevenson
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LITTLE WORLD by Josephine Rowe
Nobody writes such incandescently beautiful prose as Josephine Rowe. Her sentences are literary dopamine. Likewise, is the ethereal wonder of her…
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MONEY TO BURN by Asta Olivia Nordenhof
Translated by Caroline Waight
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IDLE GROUNDS by Krystelle Bamford
Make room in your tree-house, Max Porter. There’s a new literary weirdo in town. Krystelle Bamford’s debut pulses with the same surreal mix of menace…
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THE HONDITSCH CROSS by Ingeborg Bachmann
Translated by Tess Lewis
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