Readers’ Corner: Man Booker Prize Longlist

The Man Booker Prize just announced their longlist of titles being considered for their 2014 fiction prize.This is literary news of a sort—prizes like this being a boon for time-challenged readers looking for help in figuring out what to read next—but nothing that extraordinary in itself. After all, this happens every year.

But here’s something different: For the first time in the prize’s 46 years, the list includes writers from beyond the UK and Commonwealth. In short, that means a couple ofA...