by DYB Team | May 29, 2026 | Africa
Every dystopia is in conversation with the one before it. Huxley was talking back to Wells. Orwell was talking back to both of them. Atwood was talking back to Orwell. And 2084, the title alone, tells you exactly which conversation Boualem Sansal wants to enter. This...
by DYB Team | May 28, 2026 | BIPOC, Latin America
Some books almost did not survive. This is one of them. Love, Anger, Madness is a trilogy of three short novels by the Haitian writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet, originally published in French as Amour, Colère et Folie in 1968. The book came out, ran into trouble almost...
by DYB Team | May 27, 2026 | BIPOC, Latin America
I’m going to be honest. This is a book I held in my hands for a long time before I opened it. Eleven hundred pages will do that. The spine alone looks like a building. But once I started reading, the size stopped mattering. The book gets bigger as you go in, not...
by DYB Team | May 26, 2026 | Asia, West and Central Asia
Some books arrive in your hands and you can feel right away that they were made under pressure. Not the pressure of a deadline. The pressure of a life. This is one of those books. A Child in Palestine is the first book-length collection of work by the Palestinian...
by DYB Team | May 25, 2026 | Latin America
The Trueba family lives in a country that is never named but is, transparently, Chile. The story begins with Clara del Valle, a strange, clairvoyant child who can move objects across a room with her mind and who falls silent for nine years after watching the autopsy...
