Roberto Bolaño travels into David Lynch-land with mesmerizing results.
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Gladwell’s glad tidings
If it's cleverness you seek, Malcolm is a gift worth giving at any time of the year.
Invisible
No magic in Auster's latest, sex-addled fable about identity.
Roth’s cracked mirror
Book no. 30 is a white-knuckled detailing of self-deceit.
The Restraint of Beasts
Magnus Mills is a wizard of dead-pan disasters; he's also a wise writer.
The Humbling
Roth's latest "twilight" novel produces a literal embarrassment of dildos.
Some like it Vonnegut
The legendary American writer's combative lust endures in 13 unpublished works.
Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor
Tad Friend's nasty remembrance in an exercise in thoughtless offensiveness.
Rome: The Sweet Tempestuous Life
Hoffmann's hard-to-find Rome homage makes eternal seem like a dirty word.
Sweet Days of Discipline
Fleur Jaeggy's gem about boarding school life is pale and affirming.
Reaperville
Mortality permeates the work of new young American writers.
Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life
The cunning Coetzee takes himself down a notch, and dies.