Date: 2010 Author: Justin Taylor Justin Taylor’s 15 debut stories are a postmodernist scaffold erected by an expert carpenter. Characters…

Date: 2010 Author: Olga Grushin Grushin’s splendid first novel “The Dream Life of Sukhanov” focused on a late Soviet-era official…

Date: 2010 Author: Tom Rachman Tom Rachman’s much-praised first novel falls wincingly short of a challenge posed by a little-used…

Date: 2010 (1999) Author: Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews Skeptics of Bolaño’s blood ties with human…

Date: 2010 Author: Don DeLillo In DeLillo’s contrived “Point Omega,” a minimalist rumination on the outlines of intelligence and reality,…

Date: 2010 Author: Dan Rhodes In the early 1960s, an American children’s show aired a segment called “Fractured Fairy Tales,”…

Date: 2009 Author: Lydia Peelle Peelle’s rural enchantments are a moveable feast for the anthropomorphic. Evident are deer, ponies, and…

Date: 2007 Author: Hari Kunzru Aside from opening a porthole into lefty squatter life in London of the late 1960s,…

Date: 2009 Author: Aleksandar Hemon Hemon’s eight autobiographical stories never lose sight of alienation’s core. The narrator of the first…

Date: 2002 Author: Magnus Mills Mills is a fierce little mouse who persistently and subversively gnaws away central authority. His…

Date: 2009 Author: David Malouf Remarkable in its simplicity, poignant in its language, reverent and moving in theme, Malouf’s Iliad…

Date: 2009 (2007) Author: Philippe Claudel, translated from the French by John Cullen Claudell’s Goncourt-winning fable about dehumanization is among…