Jessie Burton's debut puts Holland's Golden Age into occasionally sinister focus.

David Grossman's remarkable tone poem is an excoriating tribute to parental love.

Novelist Juliet West tracks two dreamers through the London firestorm that is World War I.

Rome-born Francesca Marciano uses her global reach to seek meaning in identity.

In "Shotgun Lovesongs," Nickolas Butler begs the age-old question of going home again.

With some stalwart exceptions, past-gazing smothers the 2013 best-off American short story collection.

In "Beastly Things," a dead veterinarian opens the door to meat industry horrors.

A story about two brothers and their times successfully creates a narrative outside nationality.

Rachel Joyce's "Perfect," set in the 1970s, takes two tiny seconds for a troubling ride.

Paul Harding's second novel, "Enon," burnishes the author's transcendentalist credentials.

Amos Oz revives his kibbutz fervor in "Between Friends," eight interlocking stories.

In Dona Leon's "The Golden Egg," an apparent suicide opens the door to secrets and lies.