L. S. Asekoff Northwestern University Press ($15.95) by Russell Brickey For anyone who has written a poem, the bugaboo of raising language above mere denotation

Dan Kaufman/Barbez Tzadik ($16) by Christine Hume Since the new millennium, Paul Celan, often hailed as the major European post-war poet, has enjoyed at least

Zachary German Melville House Publishing ($14.95) by Morgan Myers Zachary German’s Eat When You Feel Sad is a novel about a tone—specifically, a tone of total disaffection,

Norman Lock Ellipsis Press ($13) by Monica McFawn When Guntur, the main character of Norman Lock’s Shadowplay, commits himself to the life of a dalang, a Javanese

Nnedi Okorafor DAW Books ($24.95) by Matthew Cheney So much reverberates between the lines of Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death that the greatest marvel among the many

Alyssa Knickerbocker  FlatmanCrooked ($10) by Peter Grandbois If Alyssa Knickerbocker’s Your Rightful Home is any indication, publisher FlatmanCrooked’s “New Novella” series walks softly but carries a big

Adania Shibli translated by Paula Haydar Clockroot Books ($13) by M. Lynx Qualey Stories about the past often mislead: in order to create a satisfying

Stefan Zweig translated by Anthea Bell Pushkin Press ($13) by Jesse Freedman At the climax of Joseph Roth’s Flight Without End (1927), the displaced Austrian lieutenant Franz

Ammiel Alcalay City Lights Publishers ($11.95) by Paula Koneazny Islanders opens with a man seated at a table, lost in memory, thinking about writing a story.

Jean-Philippe Toussaint translated by John Lambert Dalkey Archive Press ($12.95) by Salvatore Ruggiero It’s common for American undergraduate liberal arts students to spend a semester