Nathan Englander writes about families with insight and great sensitivity.   He digs behind the surface dialog to reveal what is hiding be...

Here's the press release from Three Percent: The 25-title fiction longlist for the 2012 Best Translated Book Awards was announced this a...

3 out of 5: Nadila, the young protagonist of this debut novel, struggles to become a writer in the formidable shadow of her obsession with C...

Scars 4.5 out of 5: Luis Fiore just shot his wife in the face after a day of hunting with his family. This fictitious brutality serves as th...

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From the Mouth of the Whale 4 out of 5: Icelandic author Sjón’s latest novel follows the life of Jónas Pálmason, an Icelandic man sentenced ...

The Book of Happenstance 3.5 out of 5: Open Letter Press recently published an English translation of The Book of Happenstance by well-know...

The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am 4 out of 5: This debut by Norwegian Kjersti Skomsvold is a sparkling jewel of a novel. At around 140 sma...

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan: Nancy Horan’s debut novel—a fictionalized account of renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s adulterous relati...

A Cupboard Full of Coats 4.5 out of 5: Yvvette Edwards’s debut novel, A Cupboard Full of Coats , is an elegantly structured story of ...

Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?: A Novel 4.5 out of 5: “The person you love is 72.8 percent water and there’s been...

Please Look After Mom 4 out of 5: In Please Look After Mom , Korean author Kyung-sook Shin gives us a beautifully written (and translated) a...

Victor Halfwit: A Winter's Tale 4.5 out of 5: Victor Halfwit is a (very) short story by Thomas Bernhard. Seagull Books, with the help o...

Kamchatka 4 out of 5: Kamchatka , a novel by Marcelo Figueras, is a fictional first-person remembrance of childhood in Argentina during the ...

Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) 4 out of 5: In Stella Gibbons’s contemporary classic novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932), th...

Stone Upon Stone 4.5 out of 5: Stone Upon Stone is the first-person narration of the fictional life of Szymek Pietruszka, a Polish farmer l...

A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear by Atiq Rahimi (translated by Sarah Maguire and Yama Yari): In Kabul in 1979 Farhad, a 21-year-old univ...