Date: 1989 (2001) Author: Iain Banks Banks’ terrestrial fiction attracts because you sense he’d really just put his characters on…

Date: 1997 Author: Beryl Bainbridge “There is no way of knowing how one will react to danger until faced with…

Date: 1999 (2007) Author: Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews Listen carefully to Auxilio Lacouture. She’s Bolaño’s…

Date: 2007 Author: Don DeLillo DeLillo’s 9/11 dirge sifts through God’s burned-out details. Here’s one: Lianne Glenn notices that estranged…

Date: 2007 Author: Owen Sheers The Normandy invasion has failed. Nazi Germany is camped out in Britain, Churchill and the…

Date: 2007 Author: Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin Murakami’s latest novel (assist from the French director…

Date: 2006 Author: Heidi Julavits American novels increasingly contain acknowledgments, mostly as disclaiming shields against plagiarism. In this one, Julavits…

Date: 1995 (2003) Author: Susanna Moore Moore serial killer story is restlessly erotic. “The cut” is vaginal. New York City…

Date: 2006 (2000) Author: César Aira, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews Aira’s unique novella intertwines the zeal of…

Date: 1989/1995 Author: David Halberstam What distinguishes these inextricably linked volumes from the many mainstays in Halberstam’s rich catalogue is…

Date: 1967 (2007) Author: James Salter This brisk erotic pastoral can wear out its welcome unless you pause to marvel…

Date: 1994 (2007) Author: Ryu Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Ralph McCarthy This Japanese “Basic Instinct” cocktail was first…