Date: 1969 (2015) Author: Leonard Gardner Stockton, California, early 1960s: short order cook Billy Tully is a scruffy, waylaid former…

Date: 2012 Author: Christine Schutt With Christine Schutt, prose is handmaiden or butler. It carries a story’s bags with poise…

Date: 2015 Author: Anthony Marra “Everyone needs an origin story,” muses a supporting character toward the end of American writer…

Date: 2014 Author: Samantha Harvey On December 26, 2001, Boxing Day, Samantha Harvey’s unnamed narrator, a 52-year-old British woman, begins…

Date: 2013 Author: Gerbrand Bakker, translated from the Dutch by David Colmer There is Hemingway-style tenderness — laconic but polished,…

Date: 2015 Author: Michel Houellebecq, translated from the French by Lorin Stein In 1964, Stanley Kubrick dropped the prospect of…

Date: 2015 Author: China Miéville In 28 stories, hypnotic herald China Miéville organizes an earth of his own invention. His…

Date: 2015 Author: Junichiro Tanizaki, translated from the Japanese by Paul McCarthy Acat named Lily that lords over a marriage…

Date: 2015 Author: Enrique Vila-Matas, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Anna Milsom Meet the author, a novelist…

Date: 2015 Author: Enrique Vila-Matas, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Anna Milsom Meet the author, a novelist…

Date: 2015 Author: Kamel Daoud, translated from the French by John Cullen It would seem a fool’s errand to attempt…

Date: 2014 Author: Aleksandar Hemon Late in Hemon’s less-than-hilarious comic novel, unhinged protagonist Josh (“wasted life”) Levin can’t stop needing…