Date: 1906 (2001) Author: Robert Musil, translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside Though the anti-depressant age has made it…

Date: 1961 (1987) Author: Peter Matthieson Matthieson’s overlooked but astute novel of World War II has less to do with…

Date: 1955 (2000) Author: Juan Rulfo, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden “Some villages have the smell of…

Date: 1994 (2011) Author: Ryu Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Ralph McCarthy Here are Dumb & Dumber vs. Tokyo…

Date: 1973 (2010) Author: Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy is America’s paramount “medievalist,” a peculiar distinction since he’s writing about a…

Date: 1940 (2003) Author: Adolfo Bioy Casares, translated from the Spanish by Ruth S.L. Simms A frantic Venezuelan escaped convict…

Date: 1908 (1999) Author: Robert Walser, translated from the German by Christopher Middleton Concepts of modernity were largely a byproduct…

Date: 1853 (2010) Author: Herman Melville Imagine running a bustling law office on Wall Street and being badly in need…

Date: 2009 Author: David Eagleman Imagine paying a Company good money for the promise of an avant-garde afterlife complete with…

Date: 2000 (2004) Author: Enrique Vila-Matas, translated from the Spanish by Jonathan Dunne Author-turned-clerk Marcello is a Barcelona hunchback obsessed…

Date: 1959 (1977) Author: Italo Calvino, translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun Italian fabulist Calvino was determined to create…

Date: Emilio’s Carnival (Senilità) 1898 (2001) Author: Italo Svevo, translated from the Italian by Beth Archer Bromberg Svevo’s Emilio Brentani…