Book Staff, Author at The American Mag

Lullaby

In this novel of exquisitely-pitched subversion, Paris power couple, Paul, in the music industry, and Myriam, a committed lawyer, eventually [...]

Hwang Sok-yong is considered by many to be South Korea's preeminent writer of fiction. His work is careful, measured, and [...]

Once you get past the requisite hosannas, and they're ample for a writer of Harukli Murakmi's rank, his sprawling new [...]

This pensive little memoir by the Argentine fantasist César Aria deals with remembrance as a child might handle a hamster, [...]

The aptly-titled "Kudos" concludes Rachel Cusk's trilogy of portraitures she began in 2014 with "Outline" (set in Greece) and continued [...]

Set in a future Japan that along with the rest of the planet has endured a soil-sickening eco-environmental catastrophe, Yoko [...]

Albanian playwright Rudian Stefa sees ghosts. They are both mythical, a byproduct of his love of Greek literature, and "real," [...]

British author Fiona Mozley's debut novel is a rural thriller that never relinquishes its grip.

László Krasznahorkai's newest collection of stories is yet another ode in his ongoing courtship of oblivion.

In Peter Stamm's latest novel, a loving husband takes a walk from which it seems he never returns.

Irish writer Claire Louise Bennett's idiosyncratic "Pond" is a small masterpiece of cranky solitude.

Gunnhild Øyehaug's stories, first published in 2004, take the idea of entanglement to unsettling extremes.