by DYB Team | May 19, 2026 | East Asia
In an old building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, there is a clinic. You cannot find it by looking. You can only find it when your life has gone sideways enough that you genuinely need help. When you finally do find it, the doctor inside listens carefully,...
by DYB Team | May 18, 2026 | South Asia
Sonia is a young Indian writer finishing college in Vermont. Sunny is a recent Columbia graduate copy editing at the Associated Press in New York. Their grandparents tried to arrange a marriage between them years before they ever met, on the not-unreasonable theory...
by DYB Team | May 17, 2026 | West and Central Asia
Mariam lives with her mother in a hut outside Herat, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy man who visits on Thursdays and pretends she doesn’t exist the rest of the week. At fifteen she is married off to a shoemaker in Kabul three times her age. Nearly two...
by DYB Team | May 17, 2026 | Latin America
In the jungle town of Macondo, founded by the patriarch José Arcadio Buendía after a dream of a city of mirrors, seven generations of one family live out a century of love affairs, civil wars, banana plantations, prophecies, insomnia plagues, and ghosts who refuse to...
by DYB Team | May 17, 2026 | BIPOC, Black Authors
Sethe escaped slavery and made it across the Ohio River to a small house outside Cincinnati, but the past has followed her there, and one day a young woman calling herself Beloved appears at the door. What unfolds is a ghost story, a mother’s reckoning, and a...
