How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

“In Sasa Stanisic’s bittersweet, musical novel about a boy growing up in Bosnia-Herzogovina before and during the war, many things happen that are impossible to understand, startlingly visual, bordering on…

The Adventures of Lucky Pierre

“An embodiment of a spectacle-obsessed entertainment culture that seems horribly like our own. . . . It delivers the ancient narrative satisfaction of seeing a character deal with the inexplicabilities…

Had a Good Time

“All of these stories are told in the first person, but Butler rarely settles for impressing us with his range of vocal effects. He favors strong plots and strong twists….

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

“A marvelous tale, with generous portions of history, adventure, intrigue, heroism, and high technology interwoven . . . Gary Kinder has the skill to put it all together, and luckily…

Levi’s Children

The Inquisitors’ Manual

“Antunes creates voices with a scrupulous, authorial neutrality. . . . He also has created a character in Senhor Francisco . . . as complex in his cunning, blindness, selfishness…

First Love and Other Shorts

…was giving birth to his child–has all the pertinacity of that bone-deep fatigue which gives Beckett’s decrepit figures (ruined leech-gatherers) their ruthless strength, their rigor, not mortis but of moribundity.”…

The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium

…. . . For all the fun to be had here, though, his warning of the dire consequences we face if we turn our eyes away from what’s before us…

Wish You Were Here

“[O’Nan’s] finest and deepest novel to date . . . The action rises and ebbs with the rhythms of daily life—meals, swimming, after-dinner videos, the children’s bedtime. . . ….