R. O. Kwon's pensive debut novel charts a well-worn path from eager innocence to bruised experience. But it tweaks the conventional campus novel formula in a few crucial ways.
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Laura Van Den Berg's new novel follows a woman who runs into her ostensibly-dead husband at a Cuban film festival. It operates in symbols and layers, leaving readers disoriented, but fascinated.
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Brazilian author Beatriz Bracher's new novel — her first to be published in English — follows a professor who, years later, is still haunted by his arrest and torture during Brazil's dictatorship.
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Cartoonist Annie Goetzinger's new biography of the French writer and provocateur Colette focuses on her most youthful, beautiful decades — set in a romanticized, cleaned-up version of Paris.
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The big new collaboration between Lorenzo Mattotti and Jerry Kramsky is visually gorgeous, lush and virtuosic — but its story of a peaceful fantasy world threatened by a crisis feels generic.
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