Swiss writer Peter Stamm produces a low-keyed rite of passage, for a Norwegian woman.
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Last Vanities
For Italo-Swiss writer Fleur Jaeggy, puncture wounds are dear to heart.
The Illumination
The acclaimed author of "The Brief History of the Dead" follows up tepidly.
Audition
Ryu Murakami has a B-movie approach to the schlock thriller — and it works.
The Days of Abandonment
Few European writers do better than Ferrante in getting to the cold and snarling heart.
The Return
Bolaño's Ouija board has porn on its mind in this collection from the late 1990s.
The Fictions of Bruno Schulz (“The Street of Crocodiles”/”Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass”)
Though Bruno Schulz got little time to show it, his vision was among literature's greatest.
No Country for Old Men
Now that the movie dust has settled, it's time to get back to the book.
Chapman’s Odyssey
Paul Bailey ruminates on life's end by injecting it with vivid vim and vigor.
Romanzo: Love and Corruption Italian Style
Angela Montgomery's novel of Milan in the 1990s is an indelible Italian portrait.
Blood Meridian
Nearly three decades later, the American Iliad still rises up and oozes.
Comedy in a Minor Key
What Anne Frank took a tome to chronicle, Hans Keilson strips down to lovely bones.