Date: 1984 (2010) Author: Thomas Bernhard, translated from the German by Thomas McLintock Kin to “Wittgenstein’s Nephew,” which preceded it,…

Date: 1950 (2004) Author: Alberto Moravia, translated from the Italian by Angus Davisdon Moravia’s lucid prose, psychological intelligence, and ferocious…

Date: 2011 Author: Peter Stamm, translated from the German by Michael Hoffman Forty-something Alex lives with his attractive wife Sonia,…

Date: 1950 (2004) Author: Cesare Pavese, translated from the Italian by D.D. Paige To those still laboring under the illusion…

Date: 1999 (2007) Author: László Krasznahorkai, translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes Former small-town Hungarian archivist György Korin is…

Date: 1945 (2011) Author: Henry Green In his most acclaimed work, English writer Henry Green (1905-1973) supplies intimate fulsome gossip…

Date: 1972 (2011) Author: Italo Calvino, translated from the Italian by William Weaver Imagine a thermal bath situated inside a…

Date: 1996 Author: George Saunders George Saunders’ 1996 debut collection showed that a geophysical engineer — Sauders’ daily vocation —…

Date: 2012 Author: Heidi Julavits If genetic engineering could fuse the Paul Auster of old with a postmodern feminist, you…

Date: 1952 (2002) Author: Cesare Pavese, translated from the Italian by Louise Sinclair The paradoxical abyss into which Pavese peers…

Date: 1988 (2009) Author: Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver The fives senses intrigued Italian author Italo Calvino. He considered…

Date: 2012 Author: Philippe Claudel, translated from the French by Euan Cameron Frenchman Philippe Claudel’s sheaf-of-a-book is a melancholy exercise…