Jessa Crispin

Andrzej Stasiuk brings wise eyes and an immense curiosity to the forgotten corners of Europe in On the Road to...

Jesse Ball's latest novel follows an "epitaphorist" who writes copy for gravestones in an ominous police state. Reviewer Jessa Crispin...

Originally published in 1937, Irmgard Keun's novel After Midnight chronicles the German citizenry's obliviousness to a nation's plunge into madness.

Do powerful women tend to be failures at love? South American novelist Luisa Valenzuela reflects on this and other mysteries...

David Albahari's Leeches is a full-steam-ahead, 300-page run-on paragraph told energetically by a nameless narrator. Set in Belgrade in the...

A year before Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique made way for a change in how women viewed their lives, The...

In an ancient Greek tale, Clytemnestra kills her husband, Agamemnon, after he sacrifices their daughter, Iphigenia. New Yorker journalist Janet...

Marjorie Garber says books are labeled as dangerous "precisely because [they] can enrich the mind, challenge, disturb, and change one's...

Kornel Esti, by the late Hungarian author Dezso Kosztolanyi, tells the story of a man's epic life in the words...

A writer's chance encounter with Vyacheslav Molotov's personal library leads to an encompassing, poetic and creative portrait of Russia's history...

During the Nuremberg trials, a collection of key witnesses — including former Nazis and resistance fighters — lived together in...

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's elegant style is out of date — but not out of touch. In The Woman with the Bouquet,...