Safelight
Shannon Burke's first established a voice of emergencies.
Nazi Literature in the Americas
Bolaño in early, savage form takes apart Nazi glitterati.
Reunion
Another modestly successful story about middle-aged love with a younger woman — wistful, but to what end?
Man in the Dark
Auster bites off more than he can chew in a war-bashing fable.
Chronicles: Volume One
If you haven't gotten around to Bob Dylan's early remembrances, do.
Loving Sabotage
It's 1972 in Red Chinese Peking, and tiny terrorism Nothomb is up to delightful no good. Beware Italian girl!
The Collected Stories of Leonard Michaels
Leonard Michaels was a New York writer going places until he stalled.
Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?
For Shermer and Grobman, Holocaust denial is above all very bad history.
Blow-Up and Other Stories
Overlooked Julio Cortázar at his best is peerless — spread the word.
Greene on Capri
Shirley Hazzard does right by Graham Greene save one point: He really never loved the island.
Snow Country
The melancholy Kawabata captures love's sad limitations in cold 1950s Japan.