11 Fast Reads

by Alberto Moravia translated by Michael F. Moore

Perceptive and razor-sharp insights into the agony of adolescence. Full review >

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by Peter Mendelsund

Mendelsund amply attains his goal to produce a quirky, fresh and altogether delightful meditation on the miraculous act of... Full review >

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by Yasushi Inoue ; translated by Michael Emmerich

This slight but elegant and moving novella is a lovely introduction to a prolific Japanese writer (1907-1991) largely... Full review >

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by Daisy Hernández

Personal storytelling at its most authentic and heartfelt. Full review >

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by Lucy Frank

Riveting, humanizing and real. Full review >

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by Sarah Ruhl

Ruhl’s musings may remind readers of Lydia Davis’ aphoristic short stories: fresh, piquant and slyly irreverent. Full review >

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by Christine Heppermann

Full of razors that cut—and razors to cut off shackles: a must. Full review >

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by Matthew Gavin Frank

Fantastical, atmospherically moody and Poe-like in its laudanum-fueled dreaminess. Full review >

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by Julie Schumacher

Truth is stranger than fiction in this acid satire of the academic doldrums. Full review >

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by Ian McEwan

McEwan, always a smart, engaging writer, here takes more than one familiar situation and creates at every turn something new... Full review >

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by Mariko Tamaki ; Jillian Tamaki ; illustrated by Jillian Tamaki

Keenly observed and gorgeously illustrated—a triumph. Full review >

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