My Cat Yugoslavia
Pajtim Statovci's novel of personal and family displacement (and odd pets) is a shining debut.
Femme-friendly Italy
Susan Van Allen experiential travel guide is an intelligent Italian companion for men and women alike.
The Last Days of New Paris
China Miéville reinvents postwar Paris in a clever but stilted homage to Surrealism.
Grossman’s verdict
Israeli novelist David Grossman uses the act of a stand-up comedian to get to the heart of Jewish doubt.
Transit
In her latest novel, Rachel Cusk can't enough of playing disappointment's biographer.
The Story of a Brief Marriage
Anuk Arudpragasam's debut is a superior work of fiction and poised rendering of unimaginable sadness.
Seeing the elephant
José Saramargo's penultimate novel is a small masterpiece of pachyderm humor.
Exit West
In "Exit West," Mohsin Hamid gives global migration a magically compassionate new look.
Lincoln in the Bardot
George Saunders' ambitious journey into the world of limbo and Abraham Lincoln's grief at the death of his son is a gossip-fest.
The Hunger Saint
Olivia Cerrone's evocative novella is a searing journey into turn-of-the-20th-century Sicilian mines.
Barrow’s Point
Robert Schirmer invents a Wisconsin town and packs it with homophobia and its fallout.