Date: 2011 Author: Don DeLillo DeLillo’s stories are scavengers on a sparse beach. They probe detritus for content. They circumnavigate…

Date: 2011 Author: Beryl Bainbridge In arguably her finest novel, 1998’s Whitbread Winner “Every Man for Himself,” Bainbridge (1932-2010) used…

Date: 2006 (2011) Author: Cormac McCarthy McCarthy’s 2006 novella-play takes place entirely in New York City tenement room, where a…

Date: 2002 Author: Doris Lessing In 1984, during an already successful career, Doris Lessing wrote and submitted for publication two…

Date: 2007 Author: George Saunders When it comes to eviscerating capitalism, product-placement, and the outrageous detritus of conspicuous consumption (cyberspace…

Date: 2011 Author: Chuck Palahniuk Pass the Great Ocean of Wasted Sperm and hang a left at the Gushing River…

Date: 2011 Author: Denis Johnson Truly strange that this introverted novella, the life narrative of a rural widower, is among…

Date: 1988 (2009) Author: Thomas Bernhard, translated from the German by David McLintock Had Goethe’s sorrowful young Werther decided to…

Date: 1945 (2007) Author: Carmen Laforet, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman Parentless 18-year-old Andrea arrives in post-Spanish Civil…

Date: 1991 (2011) Author: César Aira, translated from the Spanish by Rosalie Knecht Aira’s novella reads like a pecadillo concocted…

Date: 1952 (2007) Author: Dino Buzzati, translated from the Italian by Stuart C. Hood Fort Bastiani was the Hotel California…

Date: (1964) 1989 Author: Clarice Lispector, translated from the Portuguese by Ronald W. Sousa Brazilian author Lispector (1920-1977) was a…