by DYB Team | Jun 10, 2026 | Asia
The debut novel by Singaporean write Yu-Mei Balasingamchow opens with a microphone and a confession. A woman who calls herself Ophir, which is not her real name, has started a podcast. She is broadcasting from somewhere she will not say. She is going to tell you,...
by DYB Team | Jun 4, 2026 | Africa, Southern Africa
The House of Hunger by the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera is like broken glass. You will not finish it cleanly. You will not be able to. The book will not let you, and the book does not want to. Marechera published this slim volume in 1978 when he was twenty-six...
by DYB Team | Jun 3, 2026 | Asia, East Asia
A girl. Her little brother. A robot they find in a junkyard. A desert that stretches in every direction. A city, somewhere out past the horizon, that may or may not let them in. That is the shape of Oasis, the fourth graphic novel by the Canada-based author and...
by DYB Team | Jun 2, 2026 | BIPOC
Some books you find years after they came out, dusty on a shelf at a friend’s place. Others arrive in the world the same morning you decide to write about them. This one is the second kind. Muñeca, the debut novel by the Oakland writer Cynthia Gómez, publishes...
by DYB Team | Jun 1, 2026 | Africa
A body shows up on the outskirts of town. A young woman. A singer. Forty days later, the country is on fire. The End of the Sahara is the most recent novel by the Algerian writer Saïd Khatibi, translated into English from the Arabic by Alexander E. Elinson. It won the...
