AS THE HOLIDAYS began, we asked you for thoughts on good books that either summed up the expat life or threw open a window on another country's culture. The suggestions were many and various, and ...

The French cannot stop borrowing words from us, and they are hysterical about the fact, so I propose taking one back to make them feel better. The word is dépaysement. It refers to the melancholy ...

Time to get reading. There are books for just about every stage of the expat lifecycle: books for those who are thinking about moving abroad, for those who are already expats and trying to make sense ...

MEMORIES OF HAPPY DAYS — Julian Green—Harper ($3). That this story of France was written in a house in New England’s White Mountains is not surprising. Author Julian Green is one of the strangest ...

“Don’t dream it, be it.” So begins the video trailer for Shannon Enete’s new book, “Becoming an Expat: Costa Rica.” Like millions of intrepid travelers before her, 33-year-old Enete decided to leave ...

More than half a million Americans visited Japan last year, and by most indications, a good many of them wrote books about the experience. Now, as this literary outpouring sloshes up on America’s ...

THE MALEFACTORS (312 pp.)—Caroline Gordon—Horcourt, Brace ($3.95). The spiritual hangover of the Lost Generation has gone on for a quarter of a century now, and the pain is beginning to settle in the ...