Date: 2015 Author: Regina Ullmann, translated from the German by Kurt Beals A winsome eeriness pervades Regina Ullman’s prose. The…

Date: 1953 (1988) Author: Raymond Chandler By the time the Red-baiting American 1950s rolled around, Raymond Chandler had become a…

Date: 1954 (1981) Author: Alberto Moravia, translated from the Italian by Angus Davidson Behold poor and grimy Rome of the…

Date: 1963 (1987) Author: By Dino Buzzati, translated from the Italian by Joseph Green Dino Buzzatti’s gripping Dolce Vita-era story…

Date: 1985 (1999) Author: David Malouf David Malouf always writes purposefully: No detail is treated casually; nothing goes unobserved. Even…

Date: 1937 (2008) Author: Translated from the Romanian by Henry Howard Ailing writers have long used sobering or uplifting memoirs…

Date: 2015 Author: Alejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell 223 pages The first few stories in Chilean…

Date: 2014 Author: Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky At the core of Jenny Erpenbeck’s lyrically moving…

Date: 2015 Author: David Vann Vann’s page-turner about shaky family glue and the “path to forgiveness” starts promisingly but falters…

Date: 2015 Author: Colin Barrett Colin Barrett’s brilliantly aggressive stories feature twenty-something Irish townies (“young skins”), nowhere adolescents and nowhere…

Date: 2015 Author: Max Blecher, translated from the Romanian by Michael Henry Heim First published in 1936, Max Blecher’s slender…

Date: 2015 Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver Manic journalist Erasmo Aragón is a Salvadoran…