The last Uruguayan on the planet — Bolaño-made — has a wonderful story to tell.

In postwar Britain, Michael Chabon gives Sir Arthur Conan Doyle a run for his detective money.

Beryl Bainbridge brilliantly uses the "Titanic" disaster to make an age vanish beneath the cold Atlantic.

DeLillo's 9/11 means more than it does. It's an imagined history of trauma through a man who's ceased to be.

Sister Helen Prejean's firsthand account of death sentences she considered biased and unlawful.

Owen Sheers adds another entry into "what-if-the-Nazis-had-won" literature. But his Welsh pastoral spins its wheels.

"If Yahweh is a man of war, Allah is a suicide bomber," writes Harold Bloom — and there's more.

Another entry in Murakami's lifelong one-night-stand, with girls, gangsters, and the graveyard shift.

Susanna Moore's erotic serial killer story is razor-sharp, well-observed, and utterly nefarious.

Far too much therapy and much too little magic in Julavit's labored exploration of both.

César Aira's astounding novella lives in a supernatural genre that brings magical realism to heel.