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The Red Flag

“Hugely ambitious and boldly achieved, The Red Flag explores the roots, perversions, and manifold intellectual and geographic developments of the most dynamic and disruptive…

Red Star Over China

A reissue of Edgar Snow’s classic account as the first Westerner to meet Mao and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936.

The Refugees

From the author of The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Refugees is a collection of stories imbued with Nguyen’s extraordinary gift for writing, exploring questions…

Relative Stranger

“Loudon is excellent . . . spinning a real-life mystery from meetings with people who knew her long-estranged sister during the last dozen years…

Remember Me

“A mesmerizing meditation on loss itself and the subjectivity of perception. . . . Remember Me is a novel of abandonments and absences. . . [Azzopardi] unrolls the plot with stealth and skill. . . . [The] passages of beauty–and they are many–do not jar because the author has created…

Remembering the Bones

“With this book, Itani joins a group of novelists who have chronicled quiet lives from start to finish, uncovering treasure in their dark corners….

Raw

“A fast, funny, freaky fusion of two unlikely worlds: literature and reality TV . . . Smith brings the awesomeness together like a literary…

The Raw and the Cooked

“[A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, and Sam Peckinpah . . . Harrison writes with enough force to make your knees buckle and with infectious zeal that makes you turn the pages hungry for more. . . . Call him bigger than life or…

The Raw Shark Texts

“The Raw Shark Texts is so much more than a clever, playful book, though it is both those things. Steven Hall has worked hard to build on the work of his intellectual ancestors. . . . His writing, description as well as dialogue, is sharp and clear, which is extremely…

Ray

“This novel hangs in the memory like a fishhook. It will haunt you long after you have finally put it down. Barry Hannah is…