Auster bites off more than he can chew in a war-bashing fable.

If you haven't gotten around to Bob Dylan's early remembrances, do.

It's 1972 in Red Chinese Peking, and tiny terrorism Nothomb is up to delightful no good. Beware Italian girl!

Rattawut Lapcharoensap's debut stories about Thais in Thailand is culturally tense.

Another slew of "unsolvable" stories from fabulist Brockmeier.

Shannon Burke's first established a voice of emergencies.

Bolaño in early, savage form takes apart Nazi glitterati.

Leonard Michaels was a New York writer going places until he stalled.

For Shermer and Grobman, Holocaust denial is above all very bad history.

Overlooked Julio Cortázar at his best is peerless — spread the word.