Date: 2012 Author: Kevin Powers Powers’ bloodying dervish of a debut is less a novel per se than a sustained…

Date: 1990 (2009) Author: Tim O’Brien Writing about the Vietnam War, Tim O’Brien says, “The war wasn’t all terror and…

Date: 1998 Author: Franz Kafka, translated from the German by Breon Mitchell “Kafkaesque” persists as a popular critical modifier for…

Date: 1961 (2003) Author: Leonardo Sciascia, translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun and Arthur Oliver In the vein of…

Date: 2012 Author: Philippe Claudel, translated from the French by John Cullen From the moment the Inspector arrives in Claudell’s…

Date: 2006 Author: James Lasdun One-time East German “dissident” Stefan Vogel is “appraised by the stones”; even rural trees seem…

Date: 2012 (2008) Author: Daniel Sada, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver Rabelaisian romp? Warped telenovela? Mexican Augie March…

Date: 1999 (1954) Author: Alberto Moravia, translated from the Italian by Angus Davisdon Moravia’s marital autopsy is a kernel of…

Date: 2002 (1949)) Author: Cesare Pavese, translated from the Italian by D.D. Paige Pavese’s chilling X-ray of postwar ennui and…

Date: 2012 Author: Mark Haddon Mark Haddon’s examination of two families and their secrets is an often-dreamlike excursion into human…

Date: 2012 (2002) Author: César Aira, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews Meet Mr. Varamo, a third class “pen…

Date: 2012 Author: Toni Morrison Frank Money, a hulking, traumatized Korean War veteran, his postwar life a shambles, escapes a…