Romanian author Mihail Sebastian’s The Accident, translated into English here for the first time, is a compelling, mercurial novel. French teacher Nora slips while exiting a tram in 1934 Bucharest, sustains superficial injuries, and is... Read More

In 1940 the Soviet army executed 20,000 Polish army officers and civilians, a command issued from the highest authority, the eponymous Katyn Order of Jacobson’s second historical thriller. As the German army withdraws from Poland in... Read More

Veteran journalist Juan Luis Cebrián finds his occupation embattled on many fronts: newspapers losing readers to the immediate news available online; the globalizing effects of the world wide web reshaping languages everywhere; plus the... Read More

The aggregate tale created by the linked stories in David Philip Mullins’s award-winning "Greetings from Below" is not so much a coming-of-age story as one of growth through attrition. Mullin’s impressive debut traces the pivotal... Read More

Twenty-one-year-old Farhad finds his life upended when he breaks a seemingly minor law in 1979 Kabul. The indiscretion that launches Farhad’s nightmare is terrifying for its banality: returning from a going-away celebration with a... Read More

Cuban-American Dr. Otto Leal’s return from Sweden to his home city of Miami is doomed before it begins. Things are already bad enough for the doctor. His brother, Samuelito, has died under mysterious circumstances, prompting this... Read More

“The day she became queen, there were lots of flowers, lots of noises, lots of blood, and lots of dead bodies, but she wasn’t particularly surprised.” So opens Pagani’s svelte historical novel, and with this fleet-footed prose... Read More

“This is a love letter to the Gulf Coast,” Natasha Trethewey writes in “Liturgy,” one of the many excellent poems interspersed through the prose of "Beyond Katrina", “a praise, a song, a dirge, invocation and benediction, a... Read More