Self-Portrait With Woman

by Andrzej Szczypiorski

“In Polish novelist Andrzej Szczypiorski’s radiant new work, the affairs of the heart and the world are not so very different. . . ….

Secessia

by Kent Wascom

From the immensely talented author of The Blood of Heaven, compared by reviewers to Faulkner, O’Connor, and McCarthy, comes a gothic portrait of a…

Second Marriage

by Frederick Barthelme

“The whole book is like an interesting and just barely believable dream–one of those dreams that’s sexy, anxious, promising, and threatening at the same…

Second Person Singular

by Sayed Kashua

“With Second Person Singular, Sayed Kashua has become one of the most important contemporary Hebrew writers.” —Haaretz

Scott Fitzgerald

by Andrew Turnbull

“At last we are able to see, at full length and with a shock of belated recognition, the brave and delicate man who was…

Sandrine’s Case

by Thomas H. Cook

“Cook has shown himself to be a writer of poetic gifts, constantly pushing against the presumed limits of crime fiction.” —Los Angeles Times Book…

Sarah Thornhill

by Kate Grenville

“A wrenching conclusion to a tough-hearted trilogy . . . Grenville shies away from nothing. . . . Exuberant, cruel, surprising, a triumphant evocation…

Say Her Name

by Francisco Goldman

“Passionate and moving . . . [about] the miracle of the astonishing, spirited, deeply original young woman Francisco Goldman so adored . . . At times I felt the book…

The Scent of Your Breath

by Melissa P.

“Panarello’s prerogative to write in the fine teenage tradition of bedroom-cured bravado and deep purple prose is left intact… [She] captures the beauty and absurdity…

The School on Heart’s Content Road

by Carolyn Chute

“Chute is such an extraordinary, vivid, empathetic writer. . . . Like a ferocious bulletin from an alternate universe—tumbling, pell-mell, brilliant and strange—comes this explosive and discomfiting . . ….

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