Date: 2016 Author: Graham Swift There are times when a slice of pie is more nourishing than the whole of…

Date: 1948 (2003) Author: Georges Simenon, translated from the French by Marco Romano and Louise Varèse Frank Friedmaier is the…

Date: 2016 Author: Olga Grushin In the 1998 romantic comedy “Sliding Doors,” the shape of a young woman’s destiny depends…

Date: 1929 (2015) Author: Roberto Arlt, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor Hapless and doomed Remo Erdosain lives in…

Date: 2006 Director: Dag Solstad, translated from the Norwegian by Sverre Lyngstad Elias Rukla is a 53-year-old high school literature…

Date: 2016 Author: China Miéville China Miélville is the anti-Shiva; a maker and not a destroyer of worlds. He frolics…

Date: 2015 Author: Rachel Cusk Faye is a divorced writer headed from London to Athens to teach a summer writing…

Date: 2015 Author: André Alexis Greek gods Apollo and Hermes are wagering deities. Hanging out in a Toronto tavern, Apollo…

Date: 2015 Author: Adam Johnson Milk-drinking “Dark Meadow” a.k.a. Mr. Roses is a bizarre loner who lives in a North…

Date: 2012 (2005) Author: César Aira, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver César Aira’s hilariously macabre carnage begins meekly…

Date: 1962 (2014) Author: Philip K. Dick Apoisoned apple at the time of its writing, Philip Dick’s alternative history has…

Date: 2015 (2002) Author: Daniel Sada, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver Seamstresses Constitución and Gloria Gamal are spinster…