Austen is lighter, funnier, more sparkling by far than any novelist today.

Imagine The Da Vinci Code as a novel of ideas...

Is everything I experience just in my head?

"Perhaps what happened cannot be comprehended, or, rather, shouldn’t be comprehended, because to comprehend is almost to justify."

Milan Kundera's A Kidnapped West is a short book with an outsized impact.

The Life Before Us is the coming-of-age story of a foul-mouthed Arab orphan boy.