Italo Calvino's effort to write about all five senses was sadly stalled at three.
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Annie’s dream house
When an author seeks identity, beware the heights, and the plumbing.
Monsieur Linh and His Child
Philippe Claudel produces a fable every bit as able as those of La Fontaine, Andersen or Grimm.
This is Life
British author Dan Rhodes goes Benny Hill's way in his celebration of life.
The Twin
Dutch gardener-turned-novelist Gerbrand Bakker produces a handfull of beauty.
American gadfly
Michael Moore goes back in time to the 1960s Midwest that made him tick.
Tyrant Memory
Horacio Castellanos Moya uses a 1930s general to paint El Salvador black.
Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
The still-peerless portrayal of southern Italy of the 1930s by an exiled Jewish painter and doctor.
The Lost Daughter
Elena Ferrante's troubling Leda is a woman bereft of compass headings.
This Is Not Your City
The work of Michigan-born writer Caitlin Horrocks has a pterodactyl's loitering wingspan.
Inside Victorian closets
Emma Donoghue's "The Sealed Letter" packs a salacious Victorian punch.
Fontamara
Silone's semi-autobiographical novel about the ethics of fascism remains haunting.