Harper Lee's honored classic is better as a time capsule than as a literary masterpiece.
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The Seasons of Rome: A Journal
Paul Hoffmann's 1997 recollection of Rome contains eternal wisdom, and considerable wit.
Juliet, Naked
Nick Hornby doesn't try to be hyper-literary. The result (as always) is wholly satisfying.
Mock nocturnes
No romantic ruminations in tricky Ishiguro's dissection of music and musicians.
Pygmy
Palahniuk savages consenting vaginas and teen-dom, and that's for starters.
Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
Into the "realm of Hades" with the story of historian Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes.
Nobody Move
Denis Johnson goes to town with Camels, Camaros and musical peeing.
Beauty Salon
Mexican Mario Bellatín offers a short parable about death and choice.
Temptation
János Székely's period-piece tale is a vivid primer for inter-war Eastern Europe.
Updike endgame
With "new" stories, a "second" farewell to a peerless chronicler.
Dance with Chance: Making Luck Work for You
Three business professors make some recommendations that run against the grain.
Man Walks Into a Room
Nicole Krauss's debut novel about memory and morality is burdened by wild science.