The Rome Prize–winning author of In the Shadow of the Bridge “evokes a bygone era and an earlier pandemic…. An affecting turn in [his] long career” (Publishers Weekly).
This dark, propulsive novel, the crowning masterwork by...
From National Book Award finalist Christopher Sorrentino, a bracing, kaleidoscopic look at love and obsession, loyalty and betrayal, race and identity, compulsion and free will…
Sandy Mulligan is in trouble. To escape his turbulent private...
"Will put Allen in the company of writers such as James Joyce, August Wilson, and Ralph Ellison." — The Philadelphia Inquirer.
When it was first published fifteen years ago, Jeffery Renard Allen's debut novel, Rails Under My Back, earned its...
Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child is a sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it. At its center is Monica Johnson — cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner —...
"A slim, erotic and fable-like. . book that picks up on many of Butler's abiding themes — the legacy of the Vietnam War, the clash of Vietnam's folklore and mysticism with American manners. . [Butler is] a writer working to cast a spell." — New...
A Los Angeles Times Best of Summer pick.
An Amazon Best Book of the Month (Mystery, Thriller & Suspense).
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Summer: "The best literary puzzle of the summer."
The Antiquarian is...
Two authors. One idea. Who will be the first to write the best book in the world? This hilarious new Scandinavian sensation from Swedish author Peter Stjernström is a witty satire that can’t be missed!
Titus Jensen is waiting for...
At the novel's center is Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of one of the blackest figures in history, Gilles de Rais – child murderer, sadist, necrophile and practitioner of all the black arts. The book's authentic, extraordinarily...