Giacomo Sartori’s novel “I Am God” narrates the ultimate existential crisis.

Out of the trauma of war, Wolfe found redemption in Catholicism and his voice in futuristic, philosophical novels.

Her novels have always championed the overlooked point of view. But "Trust Exercise" takes on a riskier experiment.

James Lasdun’s "Afternoon of a Faun," about a rape allegation, bears an eerie relation to his memoir of a stalking.

The many varieties of misery in the dazzling short stories of Machado de Assis

Her new novel features a surprisingly hopeful autopsy of a failed relationship.

Marci Vogel’s new novella, “Death and Other Holidays,” presents a meditation on grief, memory, and renewal.

Her new novel "Those Who Knew" explores the prejudices, fears, and desires that are bound up with political impulses.

Anna Burns's Booker-winning novel takes on teenage girlhood, sectarian violence, and history's nameless actors.

The liberating disjointedness of Diane Williams’s very short stories

His new novel takes the reader on a boorish financier’s misguided journey of self-discovery.

Nick Drnaso's 'Sabrina,' which has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize, is a quiet revelation.

R.O. Kwon’s novel “The Incendiaries” imagines the lives of students pulled into a violent cult.

The writer's short story in 'The New Yorker' is a puzzling allegory about social media and the #MeToo movement.

In the aftermath of a divorce, Deborah Levy attempts to redraft her story.

Her new short story collection is a departure from her early fiction, which explored the seamy underside of the American family.

In 'Kudos,' the novelist meditates on justice, the stories people tell themselves, and the difference between the two.

Sam Pink’s disaffected fiction evokes the sheer weirdness of working life.

What the writer’s unique strain of autofiction says about the Australian condition.

In Lynne Tillman’s new novel, an ethnographer studies the New Man, raised in the 90s among feminists, and examines himself.