Accolades aside, Jennifer Egan's time-warp meditation is just cool cardboard.

With the checkered history of Hawaii at her disposal, Vowell offers mostly kitsch.

Beloved by David Foster Wallace, Markson's 1987 novel cheers solitude and madness.

Téa Obreht joins Olga Grushin ("The Dream Life of Sukhanov") in producing an important debut.

Siegfried Lenz's bittersweet romance leaves nostalgia to fend for itself.

Paul Auster's latest novel shows none of the craft that once made him a literary staple.

Aleksandar Hemon's debut took "foreignness" to a new and charmed place.

Take a pretty woman and an in-flight magazine and you get a dream of angels.

Ismail Kadare's mystical thriller starts strong but ends up in Balkan pea soup.

Argentina César Aira has metaphysics, cloning and comedy in his ample back pocket.