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<\/figure>The Witch<\/a><\/em> by Marie NDiaye, translated from the French (France) by Jordan Stump (Vintage, April 7)<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\nEqual parts dreamlike and disquieting, The Witch<\/em> tells a tale as old as time, with a dark twist: Without looking back, children fly the nest, laying bare the tenuous threads of family that have long threatened to snap. With simmering tension and increasing panic, NDiaye\u2019s latest novel in English captures the terror and precarity of motherhood and marriage, and the uncertainty of slowly realizing that your progeny are more dangerous\u2014to the world and to your heart\u2014and freer than you ever could have dreamed.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/balle-664x1024.jpg\")
<\/figure>\nOn the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)<\/a><\/em> by Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell (New Directions, April 14)<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\nWe\u2019re a little more than halfway through Balle\u2019s hypnotic, monumental seven-volume novel about a woman set adrift within the walls of November 18th\u2026In Book III <\/em>we saw the addition of a handful of new characters to Tara\u2019s world\u2014fellow travelers within November 18th\u2014and now Book IV <\/em>heralds the arrival of many others, and soon to be even more, roaming uncertainly through the same November day. Could this be the first stirrings of an alternate civilization? The big house in Bremen turns into the headquarters for this growing group of time-trapped individuals. But who are they and what has happened to them? Are they loopers, repeaters, or returners? A brilliant modern spin on the myth of Babel, Book IV <\/em>asks urgent questions, concerning the naming of things, and people, and of the functions of language itself\u2013must a social movement have a common language in order to exist?\u2026Amid the buzz and excitement of a new social order coming into being, Book IV <\/em>ends with a sudden, unexpected, and tantalizing cliffhanger that no one\u2014not even Tara, our steady cataloger and cartographer of the endless November day\u2014could have foreseen.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kim2.jpg.jpg\")
<\/figure>\nIf We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light<\/em> <\/a>by Kim Choyeop, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur (S&S\/Saga Press, April 28)<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\nFrom Korean science fiction author Kim Cho-yeop, a stunning and poignant collection of literary speculative fiction stories that explore the complexities of identity, love, death, and the search for life\u2019s meaning, perfect for fans of Exhalation <\/em>and The Paper Menagerie<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/djuna-683x1024.jpg\")
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<\/figure>On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)<\/a><\/em> by Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell (New Directions, April 14)<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\nWe\u2019re a little more than halfway through Balle\u2019s hypnotic, monumental seven-volume novel about a woman set adrift within the walls of November 18th\u2026In Book III <\/em>we saw the addition of a handful of new characters to Tara\u2019s world\u2014fellow travelers within November 18th\u2014and now Book IV <\/em>heralds the arrival of many others, and soon to be even more, roaming uncertainly through the same November day. Could this be the first stirrings of an alternate civilization? The big house in Bremen turns into the headquarters for this growing group of time-trapped individuals. But who are they and what has happened to them? Are they loopers, repeaters, or returners? A brilliant modern spin on the myth of Babel, Book IV <\/em>asks urgent questions, concerning the naming of things, and people, and of the functions of language itself\u2013must a social movement have a common language in order to exist?\u2026Amid the buzz and excitement of a new social order coming into being, Book IV <\/em>ends with a sudden, unexpected, and tantalizing cliffhanger that no one\u2014not even Tara, our steady cataloger and cartographer of the endless November day\u2014could have foreseen.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\nIf We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light<\/em> <\/a>by Kim Choyeop, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur (S&S\/Saga Press, April 28)<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\nFrom Korean science fiction author Kim Cho-yeop, a stunning and poignant collection of literary speculative fiction stories that explore the complexities of identity, love, death, and the search for life\u2019s meaning, perfect for fans of Exhalation <\/em>and The Paper Menagerie<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n
<\/figure>If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light<\/em> <\/a>by Kim Choyeop, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur (S&S\/Saga Press, April 28)<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\nFrom Korean science fiction author Kim Cho-yeop, a stunning and poignant collection of literary speculative fiction stories that explore the complexities of identity, love, death, and the search for life\u2019s meaning, perfect for fans of Exhalation <\/em>and The Paper Menagerie<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n
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