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Snow White and Russian Red

“Maslowska’s prose squeals with directionless drive, whizzing like a drug-induced sensory overload: disjointed, formless, unleashed… It tires and invigorates. It also introduces an otherworld of lasting, unusual imagery… Snow White and Russian Red scans like Kerouac’s Dharma Bums, an anarchic reaction to a generation of socially enforced post-war patriotism and…

Snowblind

“A flat-out ballbuster. It moves like a threshing machine with a fuel tank full of ether. . . . Sabbag is a whip-song writer.” —Hunter S. Thompson…

So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“So Brave, Young, and Handsome is a sharp and brainy redemption tale, with all the twists and turns and thrills of a dime-store western. . . . [Enger’s] laid claim…

The Soft Machine

“Burroughs voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American, a voice in which one hears transistor radios and old movies and…

Some Men and Deuce

“A breezy series of sketches . . . droll observations on the difficulties of translating the classic gay sensibility . . . a pageant…

Some Mother’s Son

“Powerful, harrowing and honest–a drama about ordinary people caught up in the Irish “troubles’ . . . An important movie, full of mourning, anger…

Singing at the Gates

From Jimmy Santiago Baca, “a poet whose voice, brutal and tender, is unique in America” (The Nation), a revelatory collection of new and previously…

A Singular Man

“A rollicking, rambunctious novel . . . sheer pleasure to read . . . shatteringly funny.” —The New York Times Book Review

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

“Impeccable research . . . Entertaining . . . The story of England’s second Tudor monarch and his rather sordid marital life has been…

The Skeleton Road

A thrilling standalone from world-class crime writer Val McDermid—a skeleton found in Edinburgh’s historic center leads cold-case detectives back to war crimes committed during…