A serial rapist meets a torturing interrogator in wartime Lebanon. Yet he soon realizes that the ultimate source of pain is his own head, which can cause a much greater suffering than the devices ...

What is more damaging to a storyteller’s accuracy — time or torture? Here is the heart of Elias Khoury’s mesmerizing new novel, “Yalo” (Archipelago Books, 317 pp., $25, translated from ...

Yalo is a thief and rapist, a security guard turned "hunter" in the forested hills above Beirut. Not only has he inverted his job, but he's fallen in love with one of his victims.