Date: 2015 Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Who knew skilled British author Kazuo Ishiguro masked a rogue Tolkien-J.R. Martin gene ready to…

Date: 2013 Author: Kathryn Davis When schoolteacher Miss Marjorie Vicks thinks about her fling with the sorcerer she becomes aroused.…

Date: 1979 (1999) Author: Tadeusz Konwicki, translated from the Polish by Richard Lourie It is 1979 in Warsaw. Poland and…

Date: 2018 Author: Ismail Kadare, translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson Albanian playwright Rudian Stefa sees ghosts. They are…

Date: 2014 Author: Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett Middle-aged Tommy sees adolescent-era friend Jim fishing from…

Date: 2014 Author: Peter Stamm, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann The carpentry of Swiss novelist Peter Stamm turns…

Date: 1955 (2010) Author: J.D. Salinger Set in 1955, J.D. Salinger’s two stories are coruscating portraits of 20-year-old Fanny Glass…

Date: 2014 Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, translated from the Russian by Anna Summers Bury the wry title. Petrushevskaya’s Poe-tinted troika of…

Date: 2014 Author: Ismail Kadare, translated from the French by David Bellos Toward the end of Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare’s…

Date: 2014 Author: Denis Johnson In 2002, Italian intelligence informed the CIA that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was chatting up Niger…

Date: 2014 Author: Aleksandar Hemon It is unsettling to watch an otherwise superbly alert autobiography suddenly molt into darkness. Yet…

Date: 2014 Author: Richard Ford Richard Ford has seen his everyman Frank Bascombe through various stages of life, beginning with…