Per Petterson's portrait of a haunted man is both skeletal and convincing.
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Reinventing Diana
What if Lady Di faked her own death and went into hiding in... Kensington, U.S.A.?
Troubling Love
Elena Ferrante is majestic in portraying the "perverse constancy" of provincial Italy.
Pulse
Julian Barnes gets to the often sexual, always intimate relationship we call "love."
Natasha and Other Stories
David Bezmozgis' debut is a quiet marvel about Latvian Jews in Toronto.
The She-Devil in the Mirror
Horacio Castellanos Moya runs comically riot through post-civil war San Salvador.
A Visit From the Goon Squad
Accolades aside, Jennifer Egan's time-warp meditation is just cool cardboard.
Unfamiliar Fishes
With the checkered history of Hawaii at her disposal, Vowell offers mostly kitsch.
Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Beloved by David Foster Wallace, Markson's 1987 novel cheers solitude and madness.
The Tiger’s Wife
Téa Obreht joins Olga Grushin ("The Dream Life of Sukhanov") in producing an important debut.
Stella (A Minute’s Silence)
Siegfried Lenz's bittersweet romance leaves nostalgia to fend for itself.
Jacobson’s Jews
Howard Jacobson has a weakness for burlesque, which erodes his portrait of British Jews.