Half-a-century later, Salinger's Glass family still emanates smart and shining light.

Ismail Kadare's recollection of his year among Soviet literary wannabes is great fun.

Denis Johnson's novel of spies in Africa falls well short of its Graham Greene-Le Carré mark.

Richard Ford revives Frank Bascombe in time to provide luminous late-middle age insights.

David Bezmozgis takes a page from Graham Greene and Brian Moore in this moral thriller.

Thomas Bernhard's one-page stories are strange and bitter realms unto themselves.

A.D. Miller's debut thriller is a gripping snapshot of Moscow under "weasel" Putin.

Keith Ridgway takes detective fiction to a place it never knew existed.

It's hard to imagine a bolder debut than Austrian Thomas Bernhard's 1967 salvo.

Syrian Osama Alomar conjures tiny parables that acquire universal meaning.

Lázló Krasznahorkai's majestic whale and circus story portrays decay as a virtue.