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Women of country music are raising their voices against the old boys’ network in Nashville they say discriminates against them.

A young student in East Berlin falls in love with a much older writer in the run-up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a love story and a rich portrait of people watching their country disappear.

Women of country music are raising their voices against the old boys’ network in Nashville they say discriminates against them.

Imre Kertesz was awarded the Nobel Prize for his writing in 2002, when he was relatively unknown and few titles were available in English. The Hungarian writer's Fiasco has just been translated, telling the story of the absurdly oppressive measures of a Stalinist government.

Let's get one thing straight: Norwegian author Per Petterson is not Stieg Larsson. They may both be Scandinavian, but Petterson's books are as quiet and contemplative as Larsson's are violent and action-packed.

The Roosevelts' unorthodox marriage was equitable, sexually open — and spanned four decades. Hazel Rowley profiles the uncommon union of a four-term president and his first lady in Franklin And Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage.

Bearing no relation to the stringy, bland canned version, fresh bamboo shoots invoke a spirit of gratitude in these savory recipes with Japanese roots. The young tips of the hardwood stalks — tender and aromatic, with a taste like artichoke, corn and hearts of palm — are a fleeting springtime crop.

At Heladeria Cadore in Buenos Aires, small-batch, hand-made daily flavors are sculpted into creamy, six-inch ice-cream spires.

Slovak author Jana Beňová's English language debut is a bizarre, oblique — but beautiful — series of vignettes about a couple who spend their time drinking and smoking in Bratislava coffee shops.

Maureen Corrigan reviews Brothers, Yu Hua's epic, 600-plus-page comedy that details life in a Chinese village from the early days of the Cultural Revolution to the giddy capitalist present.