Zeno’s Conscience
Italo Svevo's remarkable Zeno Cosini has the pedigree of a 21st-century neurotic.
The Underground Man
Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer endures as a detective ahead of his time.
Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner's 2011 debut set a fine tone for postmodern irony, but it grows repetitive.
The Third Policeman
Irishman Flan O'Brien managed to introduce Disney to Swift in a comic vision of death.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami sticks to three-decade-old themes — by now shopworn — in his latest novel.
The Dog
American Jack Livings, in his debut, digs deep under China's modern-day cuticles.
Scenes From Village Life
Amos Oz's interlocking stories are parables for a brilliant, haunted nation.
Never Love a Gambler
Irish writer Keith Ridgway is beautifully uncompromising in his pitch-perfect thug chronicles.
Open City
What's most impressive about Teju Cole's debut is its modulated darkness.
Can’t and Won’t
Lydia Davis has a problem: she can't not display her ingenious bravura.
The Unknown Quantity
Hermann Broch's novel of the life and times of a 1920s mathematician is sadly overlooked.