20th Century
One Day in Oradour
On 10th June 1944, the inhabitants of the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane were massacred by a company of Waffen-SS soldiers…
Life After Life
Editors' choice
Ursula Todd is born in February 1910 to a comfortable middle class family in the ease and seemingly unending stability…
Pearl Lagoon
On page 207 of Pearl Lagoon, the narrator laments: “I still question my decision that night [but] I then find…
Out of the Clouds of Deceit
In 1948, while training to fly bombers in the RAF, Aiden forms a friendship with another pilot, Dennis. Shortly before…
I Took Panama: The Story of Philippe Bunau-Varilla
The star of Leiton’s taut, unassuming short novel is French Colonel Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla, a pivotal figure not only in the…
The Five Acts of Diego Leon
The Mexican Revolution of the early 20th century disrupted the quiet rural life of the Leon family; loss, disease, and…
Ordinary Grace
Editors' choice
For the people of New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961 would be a summer of death, and that was especially true for…
Is This Tomorrow
Single mother Ava Lark is doing everything she can to raise her son alone. In the 1950s in Waltham, Massachusetts,…
Prisoner B-3087
The story begins in 1939 in Krakow. The Nazis are rolling over Poland when ten-year-old Yanek and his family hear…
Brief Lives that Live Forever
This Russian author writes in French and has been translated into English (are you still with me?). A middle-aged Russian…
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