The Happy Misanthrope
/Milan Kundera's newest and possibly final novel returns to the ideas he's pursued across his career, including his "categorical disagreement with being." Y. Greyman reviews.
Read MoreIn the Land of the Free Brain
/"Your field is the mind, mine is the brain - will the twain ever meet?" Master novelist E. L. Doctorow's latest deals with the traumas of duality.
Read MoreBook Review: An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky
/The gap between reality and the words with which people try to capture it lies at the heart of Dan Beachy-Quick's intelligent, lyrical novel
Read MoreA Prose Piece for Your Gaps: Robert Walser's Short Works
/A newly translated selection of occasional prose by Robert Walser demonstrates the Swiss eccentric's range of manic humor and Romantic melancholy
Read MoreIn Prague on an Errand
/In Caleb Crain's debut novel, a young man puts his ordinary life on hold and goes to post-revolution Prague in search of all the usual things young people go searching for in Prague. But, as reviewer Yulia Greyman observes, "false selves are a part of love."
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