Bolaño takes his magic and alchemy to prewar Paris.
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The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake
Pancake's stories continue sparkling long after his death by suicide in 1979.
Point Omega
Don DeLillo mixes Iraq, Hitchcock, and intimations of doomsday in his dubious Omega brew.
Little Hands Clapping
Dan Rhodes runs riot in this suicide-loving, penis-munching satire of all things macabre.
36 Arguments for the Existence of God
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein "fangs" away enjoyably on the subject of God.
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing
Lydia Peelle spins strange and wonderful magic from America's rural outback.
My Revolutions
Hari Kunzru's attempt to make 60s terrorism relevant suffers from tediousness.
Love and Obstacles
Aleksandar Hemon started writing English in his 20s. A decade later, he's a master.
Scheme for Full Employment
Magnus Mills finds a way to make even George Orwell look funny.
The Pity of it All. A Portrait of A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933
The late Israeli writer Amos Elon's masterful history is one for the ages.
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
Edward J. Larson provides a judicious and brilliant account of the Scopes Trial.
Ransom
David Malouf's remarkable "habitation" of The Iliad is as good as he, and it, gets.