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Dog Rose in the Wind, the Rain, the Earth , the third title in its Calico series. The collection features writing by eight international authors whose work explores humanity's complex relationship with the natural world. In Farkhondeh Aghaei's story "Dog Rose in the Wind, the Rain, the Earth," which appears below in Michelle Quay's translation, a violent rainstorm alters the course of a young woman's life. On a languid afternoon in Tehran, we passed through the quiet, leafy backstreets of Shemiran and down lanes of upscale, modern houses. As we neared the Ghodsian estate, Father explaine...

From Fake Facebook Profiles to Cannibal Bunnies, It’s All Strange in “Rabbit Island” Two Lines Press, 2021 With a flair for the uncanny, the wonderfully weird stories in Elvira Navarro's new collection feature characters with a borderline grasp of reality and explore the exhilaration of feeling out of place. The unnamed narrator of “Paris Périphérie,” a wisp of a story in Elvira Navarro’s new collection of short fiction, Rabbit Island, has an innate sense of direction. Even in an unfamiliar neighborhood in the bustling capital city of a foreign country, a hunch usually points h...

In her story collection "Rabbit Island," Elvira Navarro picks up where Kafka and Borges left off to expose Europe's creeping (and creepy) anxieties.

2021 reading list: 20 anticipated books to look out for this year The search for voice and identity as well as social and climate issues rule in this list of reads 'My First and Only Love' by Sahar Khalifeh; translated by Aida Bamia. Published by Hoopoe. Courtesy American University in Cairo Press 'Whereabouts' by Jhumpa Lahiri. Courtesy Bloomsbury 'Asylum Road' by Olivia Sudjic. Courtesy Bloomsbury 'The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the Case of the Foreigner in the English Village' by Shrabani Basu. Courtesy Bloomsbury 'A Swim in a Pond in the Rain' by ...

Natasha Gilmore, Idlewild Books and Open Borders Books, NYC : This book contains two novellas and some short stories set around Colombia (and occasionally Miami). The narration is often low-affect, sharply cynical, and wryly observed. There’s a cutting honesty in the voice throughout the book that feels totally absent from so much literature now. It reminded me of the feeling of encountering something truly when I was a teenager. But then there’s just the crushing reality of coming into sexuality as a teen, colorism and racism in Colombia, the restlessness wrought by capitalism and the de...