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Lan Samantha Chang’s smart and entertaining mystery of sibling rivalry, murder and missing dogs in small-town Wisconsin
Inanimate objects — including the book itself — become characters in Ruth Ozeki’s strikingly self-referential novel
The Vietnamese-American’s second novel explores the migrant experience in seedy 1980s Paris, where drug dealers mix philosophy with violence and greed
Christopher Beha’s empathetic novel portrays New Yorkers struggling to make sense of life
An entertaining novel that reimagines the life of Hillary Rodham, without marriage to Bill Clinton
Privilege and inequality intersect for an expat wife looking for purpose in Brazil
A Norwegian crime writer’s noirish retelling of ‘Macbeth’
A brutal civil war tears apart the United States in an assured dystopian debut novel
Politics, protests and absent parents are the backdrop for an expansive novel that plays with history
A novel about a couple’s quest to seek out the birth parents of their unusual adopted child
Grief and mental illness are deftly explored in an affecting, yet funny, family tale
Happiness proves elusive for the beleaguered characters who populate these fine short stories
The author attends a literary-political conference, where the struggles of oppressed writers and their families were discussed
An Irish painter reflects on his past misdeeds in this moving, autumnal novel
‘When have moviemakers ever been deferential to the intentions and efforts of literature?’
A veteran’s quiet heroism collides with his daughter’s strident ideals in the author’s follow-up to ‘Life After Life’
The author attempts to disrupt conventional understandings of what matters in a work of fiction
The Canadian writer and critic on lecturing about Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ and religion’s place in public life
An autobiographical novel about a successful writer’s love-hate relationship with the New York literary scene
An impressive debut explores how a suburban misfit’s dark fantasies impact on reality
The author and his family watch salmon leaping in Toronto and visit their ancestral home in Sri Lanka
David Mitchell’s crazy inventiveness dazzles
Interlinked stories offer a driver’s-eye view of Sri Lanka today
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