Date: 2010 Author: Hans Keilson, translated from the German by Damion Searls What “The Diary of Anne Frank” accomplished in…

Date: 2010 Author: Deborah Ball Though Amazon promotes Deborah Ball’s “House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and…

Date: 2010 Author: Terrence Holt If literature professor-turned-medical doctor Terrence Holt never again publishes fiction, these eight hallucinogenic musings will…

Date: 2010 (1962) Author: Hans Keilson, , translated from the German by Oswald Wolff It is hard to overstate the…

Date: 2010 Author: Dinaw Mengestu Mengestu’s second novel is backhanded homage to Emma Lazarus’ Statue of Liberty sonnet, which lionized…

Date: 2010 Author: Vendela Vida Vida’s third novel is perceptive without fanfare. The American sentimentalism that manipulates personal tragedy makes…

Date: 2010 Author: Pap Khouma, translated from the Italian by Rebecca Hopkins There’s an endearingly gentle edge to Khouma’s fictionalized…

Date: 1991 (1993) Author: Cees Nooteboom, translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke On the night of Herman Mussert’s death,…

Date: 1932 (2009) Author: Hans Fallada, translated from the German by Eric Sutton It’s pre-Nazi rule Germany of the early…

Date: 1963 (2009) Author: Ismail Kadare, translated from the French version of the Albanian by Derek Coltman Albanian novelist Kadare…

Date: 2010 Author: Chuck Palahnuik Notorious button-presser Palahniuk is uncharacteristically tedious in this vicious, kitchen-sink send-up of postwar Hollywood, celebrity,…

Date: 2010 Author: Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Bolaño’s kaleidoscope of cinematic ruminations was written in…