David Grossman's remarkable tone poem is an excoriating tribute to parental love.
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Fullblood Arabian
Syrian Osama Alomar conjures tiny parables that acquire universal meaning.
Talking to Ourselves
Andrés Neuman's slender but astute novel examines death from three sides.
Death Sentence (L’Arrêt de mort)
Blanchot's seminal "novel" is about the act of creation itself, and its costs.
Beneath Zeppelins
Novelist Juliet West tracks two dreamers through the London firestorm that is World War I.
War Music
Christopher Logue's personal "Iliad" recharges Homer and makes the ancient actual.
The Melancholy of Resistance
Lázló Krasznahorkai's majestic whale and circus story portrays decay as a virtue.
Other language, other self
Rome-born Francesca Marciano uses her global reach to seek meaning in identity.
Break it Down
Lydia Davis' early stories demonstrate an uncanny gift for "real-time" subversion.
Battleborne
The debut of Claire Vaye Watkins offers a withering view of the contemporary American southwest.
The Spinning Heart
Donal Ryan's fictional vision of housing bust Ireland is both smart and shattering.
Homeland revisited
In "Shotgun Lovesongs," Nickolas Butler begs the age-old question of going home again.