Date: 2011 Author: Teju Cole The choreography of Teju Cole’s debut novel is simple but sublime. Its narrator, Julius, is…

Date: 2014 Author: Lydia Davis The narrator of Lydia Davis’ “Two Characters in a Paragraph” is at odds with the…

Date: 1933 (1988) Author: The Unknown Quantity, translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir Set in 1927, Austrian…

Date: 2001 (2013) Author: Cesar Aira, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews Rarely is the prolific, mind-spinning César Aira…

Date: 1967 (2006) Author: Thomas Bernhard, translated by the German by Richard and Clara Winston It’s hard to fully fathom…

Date: 2014 Author: Osama Alomar, translated from the Arabic by C.J. Collins with the author (introduction by Lydia Davis) Very…

Date: 2014 Author: Andrés Neuman, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caister and Lorenza Garcia Death and dying are in…

Date: 1948 (1998_ Author: Maurice Blanchot, translated from the French by Lydia Davis French writer and philosopher Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003),…

Date: 2001 Author: Christopher Logue For three decades, the late British poet and writer Christopher Logue (1926-2011) chipped away at…

Date: 1989 (2000) Author: László Krasznahorkai, translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes Krasznahorkai’s 1989 novel is an ambitious metaphysical…

Date: 2008 Author: Lydia Davis Lydia Davis’s stories — there are 34 early ones in this volume — display the…

Date: 2013 Author: Claire Vaye Watkins The introduction to Watkins’ debut story collection is Stephen Crane’s stark poem “In the…