Cassio

His first long novel, 1996’s Chapaev and Void (published in the US as Buddha’s Little Finger and in the UK as The Clay Machine-Gun) has been called the first post-Soviet Russian literary bestseller.

this slipperiness was an asset rather than a liability.

Taxi by Khaled Alkamissi

I have mentioned this book numerous times, but it’s really one of my favorites. A friend recommended it to me when I first moved to Cairo, and I’ve probably read it ten times since then. “Taxi” is based on a series of fictional taxi rides, during which the author posed questions to the drivers and documented the conversatio... See more