Date: 1997 Author: Joan Didion To a generation of readers, Joan Didion is best known as the author who deftly…

Date: 1981 (2003) Author: Ted Mooney Though Texas-born American novelist Mooney has produced a steady dose of fiction over the…

Date: 1992 (2012) Author: Edward St. Aubyn “Never Mind” is the first in British novelist Edward St. Aubyn’s acclaimed five-volume…

Date: 2012 Author: Jessica Stewart Stewart’s book offers a selection Rome’s most celebrated street artists through photography and text, and…

Date: 1984 Author: Dino Buzzati, translated from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti In Buzzati’s best work, the magical and the…

Date: 2016 Author: Robert Schirmer In “Barrow’s Point,” the fictional Wisconsin college town of Robert Schirmer’s powerful new novel, gay people are…

Date: 2017 Author: Olivia Cerrone Olivia Cerrone’s “The Hunger Saint” is an exquisitely written, vivid, and engaging novella about the carusi — Italian boys…

Date: 2017 Author: George Saunders George Saunders is a great American writer. His extraordinary first novel is not his best…

Date: 2017 Author: Mohsin Hamid Trap doors and mysterious chambers opening into surprising realms have long played an important role…

Date: 2016 Author: Anuk Arudpragasam At first blush, Sri Lankan writer Anuk Arudpragasam’s debut novel is the simple story of…

Date: 2016 Author: Rachel Cusk If bourgeois post-modernism could take human shape and name a representative, British novelist Rachel Cusk…

Date: 2017 Author: China Miéville British fantasist China Miéville’s reinvention of postwar Paris is an ingenuous homage to the sorcery…