Category Archives: out this month

Out This Month: July

“Serpent Carriers” by K.A. Teryna, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Clarkesworld, July 1) Into the Sun by C. F. Ramuz, translated from the French (Switzerland) by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan (New Directions, July 1) It’s been a hot summer for a Swiss lakeside town—both bucolic and citylike, old-fashioned and up-to-date—when a “great

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Out This Month: June

School of Shards by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko, translated from the Russian by Julia Meitov Hersey (Harper Voyager, June 17) The haunting final chapter of the modern classic Vita Nostra trilogy. The Dyachenkos’ magical dark academia novel brings the story of Sasha to a revelatory climax as she learns to take control of her powers

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Out This Month: May

Red Sword by Bora Chung, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur (Honford Star, May 13). Red Sword is the mesmerizing and haunting English-language debut novel by International Booker Prize-shortlisted author Bora Chung. Expertly translated by Anton Hur, this speculative fiction unfolds on a distant, war-ravaged planet where advanced technologies wreak havoc and devastation. Told

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Out This Month: April

“Still Water” by Zhang Ran, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld, April 1) A Carnival of Atrocities by Natalia García Freire, translated from the Spanish (Ecuador) by Victor Meadowcroft (World Editions, April 1) Cocuán, a desolate town nestled between the hot jungle and the frigid Andes, is about to slip away from memory.

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Out This Month: March

“Pollen” by Anna Burdenko, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Clarkesworld, March 1) “The Sound of the Star” by Ren Zeyu, translated from the Chinese by Jay Zhang (Clarkesworld, March 1) The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Sarah Moses (Scribner, March 4). The long-awaited new novel from the author

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Out This Month: February

“Bodyhoppers” by Rocío Vega, translated from the Spanish by Sue Burke (Clarkesworld, February 1) “The Hanging Tower of Babel” by Wang Zhenzhen, translated from the Chinese by Carmen Yiling Yan (Clarkesworld, February 1) “Hotel California” by Hsin-Hui Lin, translated from the Chinese (Taiwan) by Ye Odelia Lu (Samovar, February 3) “Flying in the Dark Night”

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Out This Month: January

The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories by Dino Buzzati, translated from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti (NYRB, January 7). In The Bewitched Bourgeois, Lawrence Venuti has put together an anthology that showcases Buzzati’s short fiction from his earliest stories to the ones he wrote in the last months of his life. Some appear in English for

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Out This Month: December

“The Coffee Machine” by Celia Corral-Vázquez, translated from the Spanish by Sue Burke (Clarkesworld, December 1) “Life Sentence” by Gelian, translated from the Chinese by Blake Stone-Banks (Clarkesworld, December 1) REVIEWS Shinjini Dey reviews Mevlido’s Dreams: A Post Exotic Novel on Strange Horizons Aran Ward Sell reviews Your Own Dark Shadow: A Selection of Lost

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Out This Month: November

“Because Flora Had Existed. And I Had Loved Her” by Anna Martino, translated from the Portuguese (Brazil) by the author (Samovar, October 28). “Whale Ocean” by Nanpai Sanshu, translated from the Chinese by Xueting C. Ni (Samovar, October 28) The Last Day by Owain Owain, translated from the Welsh by Emyr Wallace Humphreys (Parthian Books,

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Out This Month: October

“The Face of God: A Documentary” by Damián Neri, translated from the Spanish by the author (Clarkesworld, October 1) The Third Realm by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken (Penguin Press, October 1) Shapeshifting visitors, unsolved murders in the forest, black metal bands and an online bank of thousands of people’s

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