Date: 2007 Author: J.M. Coetzee In “Elizabeth Costello” and “Slow Man,” Nobel laureate Coetzee tentatively attached himself to aging. Costello,…

Date: 1907 (1993) Author: Joseph Conrad “Ihave always dreamed of a band of men absolute in their resolve to discard…

Date: 2007 Author: Mohsin Hamid Hamid’s accomplishment is economical and majestic. His narrator is a young Pakistani named Changez who…

Date: 1988 (2006) Author: Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin Murakami’s wildly successful first novel might well…

Date: 2007 Author: Alan Furst Good historical fiction uses plausible characters to breathe life into ambience. Instead, Furst makes wooden…

Date: 2007 Author: Jennifer Belle If it’s possible to imagine Paul Auster as a diminutive young Jewish woman flitting brilliantly…

Date: 2007 Author: Richard Flanagan Nothing subtle about Flanagan’s post-9/11 world. Everyone lies. The big, bad Australian state falls into…

Date: 2007 Author: Ryszard Kapuscinksi, translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska “The road,” writes Polish correspondent Kapuscinski, “is our…

Date: 2007 Author: Ian McEwen Sometimes, when McEwen relaxes from his great ambition, that of getting the world and all…

Date: 1997 (1999) Author: José Saramago, translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero The successful allegorist seeks metaphors to befriend…

Date: 2006 Author: David Maraniss Roberto Clemente, arguably the best Latino baseball player of the 1960s, died in an air…

Date: 2007 Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen Muñoz-Molina, like Luis Buñel (see “That Obscure…