“Our Noble Selves” takes place amid the 1951 Festival of Britain, when a traumatized ex-war reporter and P.O.W. goes from government cog to murder suspect.
The Polish best seller “Hexes of the Deadwood Forest” is like a post-porn fever dream of Eastern European magic realism crossed with a plant-based “Joy of Sex.”
Lola Lafon’s book “When You Listen to This Song” is a hit in its native France. Now in English, it explores identity, loss and memory in wholly new ways.