A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Elegantly crafted and dazzlingly clever, Amor Towles’s novel A Gentleman in Moscow transcends the...

The Ghost of Birds by Eliot Weinberger Half a dozen stories from the Arabian Nights open with an enigmatic, perhaps untranslatable...

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders I didn’t know what a bardo was before reading George Saunders’s new novel Lincoln in the Bardo,...

Driving Without a License by Janine Joseph One has come to expect quality from Alice James Books. The venerable New England cooperative...

You Should Pity Us Instead by Amy Gustine “Most serious and productive artists,” writes Joyce Carol Oates, “are ‘haunted’ by their...

Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea Close your eyes and imagine Karl Marx. Can you see him? That giant head covered in curly hair, that jolly...

White Blight by Athena Farrokhzad Translated by Jennifer Hayashida Athena Farrokhzad’s White Blight, translated by Jennifer Hayashida, is...

The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud Albert Camus is a modern prophet of humanism. He was born in 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria, into...

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara At the center of A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is love. The kind of love that binds four men...

The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Bendorf Oliver Bendorf writes in the poem “Ghost Dog,” “I miss things sometimes that I cannot locate in...