No one truly understands how much it means to me to own a book. I didn’t bring a single book to Cebu—I left them all at home simply because there was no space. I thought I could live without books, ...

The last book and the second Jenny Hval book on this list, Girls Against God grapples with a lot of the same themes as Paradise Rot — isolation and belonging, female impulses, bodies, burgeoning ...

Lawrence Schimel, an author and literary translator, has long been a champion of creativity and inclusivity in literature.