Few cities have had as rich and varied a history as Trieste, whose borders have been defined and redefined countless time.

In her new memoir, Rita Gabis tells of unearthing facts about her once-beloved grandfather, the chief of police from 1941 to 1943 under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian…

How do you describe colors to a blind person? Can you convey the shadings, the nuances, the intensities? In The Marriage of Opposites, Alice Hoffman asks the reader…

In dense stream of consciousness, protagonist Arthur Landau, a middle-class sociologist, returns home in search of his lost life only to confront a formidable psychological wall between himself…

First-time author Yelena Akhtiorskaya explores the confounding life of émigrés from Russian-speaking Ukraine trying to build new lives in Brooklyn’s Little Odessa.

Set in Crimea, this books relates a story that is simple on its surface but deeply scrutinizes ethical judgments, even though the events transpire in only one day.

A Replacement Life: A Novel by Boris Fishman. (Harper, 336 pp. $25.99)   Few authors generate the hosannas that greeted Boris Fishman for his debut novel, A

Minsk-born Boris Fishman, author of A Replacement Life, has led several lives on the road to literary success. He has worked as a hiking guide,