Keith Donohue Crown Publishers ($24) by Andrew Cleary In the opening scene of Keith Donohue's novel Centuries of June, we see the bloody collision of the

Henning Mankell Translated by Steven T. Murray The New Press ($26.95) by Jens Tamang A story about a white man who brings a black child back

Jim Miller AK Press ($13.95) by Susan Solomon Who are the Wobblies? If you know, if you care, then Jim Miller’s novel Flash may light a spark

Federico Gamboa Translated by John Charles Chasteen The University of North Carolina Press ($22.95) by Kristin Thiel This book’s English translator, professor of history John

Jennifer Egan Anchor Books ($14.95) by Sharon Harrigan “It is in ourselves that we should seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.”

Michael Crummey Other Press ($15.95) by Marjorie Hakala It’s common to say that a book paints a vivid picture, or to remark on the sound

Kevin Brockmeier Pantheon ($24.95) by Kelly Everding Kevin Brockmeier’s The Illumination takes on a juggernaut of philosophical conundrums: the problem and purpose of suffering. In the world

Anne Wiazemsky Translated by Alison Anderson Europa Editions ($15) by Derek M. Jackson Each story has its appropriate storyteller. When it came time to tell

Alexander MacLeod Biblioasis ($16.95) by Benjamin Woodard The Canada found in Alexander MacLeod’s impressive debut story collection, Light Lifting, is full of anxiety and obsession: a

Tahar Ben Jelloun Translated by Linda Coverdale Penguin ($15) by Brooke Horvath Although Tahar Ben Jelloun left Morocco for France in 1971, his imagination continues