Easton-Ellis' reviled or revered novel doesn't suffer from a lack of moral clarity. It's amoral and deadly.

The second installment in Ford's Frank Bascombe trilogy is an exceptional foray into day-to-day Americana.

All decision-making, claims Malcolm Gladwell, begins with the blink of an eye — literally.

Amélie Nothomb's account (hardly fictionalized) of year spent living and working in Tokyo is simply unmissable.

Ishiguro's debut uses intimate family shame to get to the horror of Nagasaki atom bomb aftermath.

Lorraine Adams' magnificent first novel about putative terrorists is informed by reporting on Algerian immigrants.

Jill Ker Conway's recalls her journey from Australia to the halls of American academia.

Waiting out the 1975 Angolan civil war is, for Kapuscinksi, an excuse for some stunningly beautiful character studies.

Davis successfully flirts with the outer fringes of prose limits in this wildly creative collection of stories.