Date: 1968 (2009) Author: Mikhail Bulgakov, translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny Bulgakov’s 1925 hilarity channels the lucid lunacy…

Date: 2013 Author: Rachel Kushner Kushner’s choppy second novel is about a speed-loving young woman from Reno, Nevada who lives…

Date: 1929 (2012) Author: Dashiell Hammett If Gatsby and his Fitzgeraldian ilk helped Dandify the 1920s East Coast, albeit spiking…

Date: 1957 (2007) Author: Carlo Emilio Gadda, translated by William Weaver Milan-born Carlo Emilio Gadda took the road less traveled.…

Date: 1942 (2006) Author: Stefan Zweig, translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg World chess champion Mirko Czentovic is a…

Date: 1975 (1992) Author: James Purdy American novelist James Purdy was never able to dim the “controversial” label that weighed…

Date: 1947 (2000) Author: Malcolm Lowry What Lowry did no one has done better: take the condition of Hell’s gate…

Date: 1958 (2011) Author: Truman Capote Immortalized by the exquisite Audrey Hepburn in the film version of the book, Holly…

Date: 1984 (2010) Author: Tom Clancy Only good pulp fiction holds up for decades. The late Tom Clancy’s debut work…

Date: 2001 Author: W.C. Heinze In the 1952 story “G.I. Lew” about Lew Jenkins, a former lightweight champion who enlisted…

Date: 1976 (2001) Author: Danilo Kiš, translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Duska Miic-Mitchell There is no lack of superb fiction…

Date: 2013 Author: James Salter Salter’s first novel since 1979 covers a half-century arc, its narrator Philip Bowman striding pilgrim…