God is in the details for Mavis Gallant, Canada's leading Parisian emissary.

For László Krasznahorkai, neither God nor the devil offer a "human" way out.

Once a wizard when it came to macabre irony, Dan Rhodes has lost his mojo.

First published in 1968, Cormac McCarthy's second novel delivers a mean netherworld.

George Saunders sees not only what others don't, but what they can't, or won't, imagine.

An unfinished novel begun in the 1980s represents Robert Bolaño's final, and extraordinary, farewell.

Insight into the brooding heart of boarding school darkness, Robert Musil-style.

Peter Matthieson's strays far from the home of the brave in his overlooked "Raditzer."

Juan Rulfo's haunting novella helped pry open the door to acres of magic.