The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick deWitt (2011)
A novel with unlikely named protagonists (two brothers with the family name of Sisters) and a deliberately stilted style using almost no contractions, this q...
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Best of Enemies: A History of US and Middle East Relations, Part 1, by Jean-Pierre Piliu & David B. (2011)
This graphic “novel”, a collaboration between historian Jean-Pierre Filiu and illustrator David B., is the first of a planned series. Covering the period fro...
1Q84, by Haruki Murakami (2009–2010)
Where to begin? Murakami, who has won a long list of literary awards at home and internationally, is not just big in Japan; he’s the sort of writer who gets ...
Taras Bulba, by Nikolai Gogol (1842), translated by Peter Constantine (2003)
A few winters ago, in a small cabin in the woods full of books, I plucked Gogol’s novel Dead Souls off a shelf and passed an enjoyable evening in front of a ...
The Photographer, by Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, and Frédéric Lemercier (2009)
In 1986, as the USSR was deep in the middle of its hopeless war of occupation in Afghanistan, the photojournalist Didier Lefèvre was hired by Medecins sans f...