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The Butterfly Mosque

by G. Willow Wilson

The extraordinary story of an all-American girl’s conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing…

Exploding the Phone

by Phil Lapsley

A riveting history of the telephone hackers of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s….

The Gay Metropolis: 50 Years After Stonewall

…up, both cultural and politically, for the gay movement — much faster than we thought it would possibly happen.” (Hear more…) From the Washington Post’s “Cape Up” Podcast: From Stonewall…

They’re Cows, We’re Pigs

by Carmen Boullosa

“A word-drunk picaresque novel . . . Boullosa’s vivid and visceral descriptions provide hallucinatory images of the pirates’ raping and pillaging, their battles in the jungle and at sea.” –The…

On a Wave

by Thad Ziolkowski

“More than an account of a sport mastered. It’s a sharp, self-conscious portrait of the artist as a young grommet.” –The New Yorker…

My Mother’s Lovers

by Christopher Hope

“A brilliant send-up of the ‘white tribe’ in Africa, featuring a larger-than-life Beryl Markham-like figure . . . and the son who can’t flee from her shadow fast enough.” —Vanity…

A Quiet Life

by Kenzaburo Oe

“[These] ordinary lives . . . are movingly illuminated . . . portraits drawn with affection, insight and that wry humor . . . that is one of the defining…

Uniform Justice

by Donna Leon

“Leon is probably the best mystery writer you’ve never heard of. . . . She uses the relatively small and crime-free canvas of Venice for riffs about Italian life, sexual…

The Soft Machine

by William S. Burroughs

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

Meditations in an Emergency

by Frank O'Hara

“Moving in the way that only simple communication can be moving… His poems always manage a fresh start free from the dreadful posturings of the conventional verse of his generation.”—Kenneth…