Linmark (Rolling the R's) cunningly follows Philippines-born Vince De Los Reyes through the trials and surprises awaiting him upon his return to his home country after spending 13 years in Hawaii. Continue reading »
Ken Z, 17, lives in the fictional Pacific Island country of South Kristol, which is a developing nation under the thumb of militaristic, wealthy neighbor North Kristol. When Ken Z visits an upscale Continue reading »
Readers of Huxley’s Brave New World will find glimmers of that book’s dark humor and sterling powers of observation in this stellar 1923 lampoon of English intellectualism after Continue reading »
An ordinary man suffers an existential crisis in Nobel laureate Pirandello’s fascinating 1926 novel, freshly translated by Wilsey. Vitangelo Moscarda spirals after his wife, Continue reading »
Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this sweeping tale from Andrea (A Hundred Million Years and a Day) comprises a dying artist’s account of how he came to make his mysterious Continue reading »
In the deeply intelligent and endlessly supple latest from McEwan (Lessons), a pair of scholars look back on the present day from a future Britain radically transformed by Continue reading »