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The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie
Edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Henry Herz
This inventive collection conjures the Nobel winner’s younger days.
This collection delights and mystifies in equal measure.
If I Survive You
By Jonathan Escoffery
Men are haunted by their own poor decisions in this stellar collection of linked stories.
Cursed Bunny: Stories
By Bora Chung; translated by Anton Hur
These fractured fairytales mirror a perpetually broken society.
My Monticello
By Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
A wry, captivating reimagining of history both recent and receding.
The Dog of Tithwal
By Saadat Hasan Manto; translated by Khalid Hasan and Aatish Taseer
A charged, sober collection about life in post-partition India and Pakistan.
Panics
By Barbara Molinard; translated by Emma Ramadan
A maddeningly abstruse story collection from France.
Bliss Montage: Stories
By Ling Ma
The author’s first collection sets a surreal world spinning on an axis of displacement.
