In Zeruya Shalev’s searing contemporary novel "Pain", an Israeli woman who survived a terror attack is forced to address the wounds that will not heal. Ten years ago, Iris... Read More

Nina Allan’s exquisite and strange "The Dollmaker" is a postmodern fairy tale, both whimsical and aching in its appeal. Andrew felt lost among his contemporaries until he... Read More

Undeniably, America had a banner run in the twentieth century. No country came anywhere close to achieving such power and prosperity for those one hundred years. You killed it,... Read More

Patterned after the music of Schubert and described as a winterreise (German for “winter journey”), Sarah Léon’s "Wanderer" is a story all about unspoken feelings.... Read More

"Little Dancer Aged Fourteen" illuminates a slice of art history with ravishing acuity. Camille Laurens examines Marie van Goethem, the young model and dancer of Degas fame, in... Read More

Enrico Pellegrini gave the 2008 financial crisis time to bake, rise, and cool before blasting it with his incisive and satirical novel "Something Great and Beautiful". After a... Read More

Moshe Sakal’s "The Diamond Setter" is a spellbinding saga of love and family secrets. Characters’ stories overlap, all connected by a famous blue diamond: Sabakh. A handsome... Read More

This newly translated novel explores timeless themes of acceptance and struggle with power, grace, and insight. "For Two Thousand Years" is a profoundly moving novel that... Read More

"The Second Winter" captures not the lives of soldiers on the battlefield, but those of simple people living on the edges. Against the backdrop of World War II, multiple lives... Read More

A medical crisis challenges a transatlantic friendship in this understated dual account of betrayal and disability. Michèle Halberstadt is a film producer as well as a... 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... Read More

A search for identity through storytelling and an adoption of parental values bring an air of universality to the story of this young narrator. In a mash-up of film noir, fairy... Read More