New York. Pantheon. 2019. 274 pages. We are on an island. No inhabitant knows its size, its shape, or where it is. About fifteen years earlier, things started vanishing: the narrator begins, “I somet…

Stephen Snyder, tr. New York. Mulholland Books / Little, Brown. 2014. ISBN 9780316200929Confessions, the debut novel from Minato Kanae (b. 1973), is a sobering indictment of current Japanese…