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 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 | 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 24, 2026 | Asia, East Asia
Kikuji is a young Tokyo office worker, twenty-eight years old, both of his parents recently dead. He has been invited to a traditional tea ceremony hosted by Chikako Kurimoto, a woman with whom his late father once had a brief, badly ended affair. At the ceremony he...
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...
