Three Kafkaesque Novels from Around the World

Recently, my friend Michael Barron emailed me with a book recommendation—Kadare’s The Palace of Dreams—and a question: was I still doing book recommendations on Counter Craft? I interview authors with new books out, but it has been a while since I wrote a post praising older, obscure, or translated works. I’m a little embarrassed about that. One of the reasons I created this newsletter is that newsletters are the rare space where you can talk about older books and nice literary topics that most places don’t want to cover.