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This is a coming of age book set in one of the worst times and places to come of age — Panang, an island off...

A murder mystery punctuated with serious philosophical musings, this novel traces 150 years of Filipino history, posing questions about identity and art, exile and duty.

Set in Nazi-occupied Europe, this novel, appearing only now in English, is a mid-century masterpiece by the centenarian Keilson, who served in the Dutch resistance.

If I were developing a reading list for newcomers to the Middle East, Amos’s slim but powerful volume would be the last assigned book, the...

Using the medium of the graphic novel to great effect, Jason Lutes’s Berlin: City of Stones and Berlin: City of Smoke offer a history of the...