Shannon Burke's first established a voice of emergencies.

Bolaño in early, savage form takes apart Nazi glitterati.

Another modestly successful story about middle-aged love with a younger woman — wistful, but to what end?

Auster bites off more than he can chew in a war-bashing fable.

If you haven't gotten around to Bob Dylan's early remembrances, do.

It's 1972 in Red Chinese Peking, and tiny terrorism Nothomb is up to delightful no good. Beware Italian girl!

Leonard Michaels was a New York writer going places until he stalled.

For Shermer and Grobman, Holocaust denial is above all very bad history.

Overlooked Julio Cortázar at his best is peerless — spread the word.

The melancholy Kawabata captures love's sad limitations in cold 1950s Japan.