Looking4Love
America's best stories crave love but often seek it in a frozen past.
The Conformist
Moravia's Maurizio Clerici is a fundamental figure in the understanding of fascism.
Seven Years
Peter Stamm's latest novel takes apart marriage and leaves scarring.
Among Women Only
Months before his death, Cesare Pavese got to the heart of vacuous postwar Italy.
War & War
László Krasznahorkai's novel is among the great transcendent works of the last half-century.
Nesser noir
Reading Swedish crime maestro Håkan Nesser is like riding a double-layered carousel.
Loving
For Henry Green, gossip is the only wartime fuel that's not scarce.
Invisible Cities
What's the difference between a seen city and one the mind makes up?
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
A writer let loose among fictitious theme parks can fall in love with the rides.
The Vanishers
Irony-contaminated Heidi Julavits takes aim at mommies and psyches.
The Moon and the Bonfire
Cesare Pavese's gift was studying the state of man ahead of that of politics.