Gilgamesh

“At once a very Australian dream and a universal one, the dream of exotic, talismanic places beyond the horizon. . . . [Gilgamesh is] a pleasure to read, [London’s] prose…

The New Great Game

“A compact style and a sharp eye for detail . . . help the reader digest a huge and complex subject. . . . [Kleveman] is clearly an intelligent observer…

Cleopatra Dismounts

An enchanting, audacious retelling of the Cleopatra story from a Mexican novelist who is “a luminous writer” and “a masterful spinner of the fantastic.” –Fabiola Santiago, The Miami Herald…

Levi’s Children

The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium

“An exhilarating, dissonant ride . . . Dery, one of our most astute contemporary cultural critics . . . relishes his role as curator of America’s bulging cabinet of horrors….

The Lost German Slave Girl

“Bailey has the gifts of a novelist and a readiness to blend fact and conjecture . . . with the result that The Lost German Slave Girl reads like a…

The Killing Hills

Acclaimed literary author Chris Offutt now delivers a breakout novel — The Killing Hills, a literary crime novel set in the Kentucky hills in which an Army CID agent on…

A Diamond in the Desert

Part history, part memoir, part travel guide, this search for the mysteries behind one of the world’s richest cities is “the best book . . . on the Gulf coast…

The Bureau and the Mole

“A first-rate spy story.” –Entertainment Weekly…

The Adventures of Lucky Pierre

“An embodiment of a spectacle-obsessed entertainment culture that seems horribly like our own. . . . It delivers the ancient narrative satisfaction of seeing a character deal with the inexplicabilities…