Date: 2014 Author: David Bezmozgis Baruch Kotler — born Boris Solomonovich in Moscow — is a one-time Soviet refusenik turned…

Date: 1978 (1997) Author: Thomas Bernhard, translated from the German by Kenneth Northcott Taken together, Bernhard’s 104 one-page stories can…

Date: 2011 Author: A.D. Miller Thirty-eight year-old Luton-raised Nick Platt is an international lawyer in boomtown Moscow during the first…

Date: 1923 (2002) Author: Italo Svevo, translated from the Italian by William Weaver Zeno Cosini is a Triestine yes-man set…

Date: 1971 (2012) Author: Ross MacDonald Canadian-American Ross MacDonald (1915-1983) wrote detective stories in the finest tradition of a form…

Date: 2011 Author: Ben Lerner Meet Adam Gordon, a self-loathing American writer on a fellowship to Spain — the year…

Date: 1967 (2014) Author: Flann O’Brien Irishman Flan O’Brien’s surreal black comedy is a masterpiece of sublime imagination and bizarre…

Date: 2012 Author: Keith Ridgway Here is a novel as a menacing vortex, as the sum of human ruins that…

Date: 2014 Author: 2014 Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel Haruki Murakami has an uncanny ability to…

Date: 2014 Author: Jack Livings American Jack Livings has absorbed contemporary China as a napkin does moisture. He has an…

Date: 2009 (2012) Author: Amos Os, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange What wonderful stories Amos Oz tells.…

Date: 2014 Author: Keith Ridgway “Details compel me,” says the young assassin in the third of three shimmering stories. Details…