In John Reed's graphic novel, few get out alive. Gratuitous outrage? Not a chance.

For "Talking Head" Byrne, the the world's offerings are best seen from a bike.

Albanian master Kadare's post-war parable skirts ideology to achieve a rare timelessness.

An impressive fifth movement from Colson Whitehead, who again looks back.

Palahniuk tells his Hollywood all, but after a while the show grows tiresome.

Early on, Roberto Bolaño offered a delicious presaging of things to come.

In Justin Taylor's first collection, youth is lost in its own space.

Olga Grushin confirms her status as one of the best young writers in the English language.

Charles Lambert's new novel puts a modest man on a collision course with Italy's dark side.

Tom Rachman's balleyhooed novel about an English-language paper in Rome is true to its title.