With its vibrant, sophisticated prose style, this is a necessary historical novel in Gulag literature. Sergei Lebedev’s "Oblivion", translated by Antonina W. Bouis, creates a searing historical narrative that begins in a dacha and ends... Read More

"Captivity" is an exciting and engrossing historical epic that richly rewards the reader. Clocking in at over eight hundred pages, "Captivity" is a sprawling, epic bildungsroman that immerses the reader in a richly detailed world of the... Read More

Weiner’s book requires the abandonment of expectations and the willingness to delve into the lines between reality and unreality. As Czech Modernist writer Richard Weiner would have it in his provocative and existential exploration... Read More

Internationally acclaimed short stories delve into contradictions in Mexican culture, mythology, trust, and forgiveness. Prominent Mexican writer Juan Villoro, who has yet to be celebrated, much less discovered, in the United States, has... Read More

Lake Superior in winter is a vast sheet of ice, white and implacable; its rocky shores, tall pines, and moody silences are the perfect backdrop for award-winning Norwegian mystery writer Vidal Sundstøl’s Minnesota Trilogy. The third... Read More

Josep Pla (1897-1981), one of the most influential and controversial Catalan authors of the twentieth century, has a sensibility he declared to have been “notoriously influenced” by his admiration for the Dutch genre painters. In... Read More

Parisian bookseller Laurent Letellier, on his way to enjoy a double espresso and study his notes for an upcoming book signing, discovers a mauve leather handbag, in excellent condition and obviously not empty, sitting upon a waste bin... Read More

When Hélène Chambon, great-niece of author Daniel Roche, pen name H. R. Sanders, moves to Paris to study archeology, she encounters a mystery much more engrossing than her studies—one that not only involves her enigmatic, eccentric,... Read More