A Carnivore’s Inquiry

The spellbinding new book by the winner of the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award is a gripping, literary psychological thriller about a young woman and a peculiar taste for flesh…

The Beholder’s Eye

“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…

Vanilla

…Indian Ocean from which vanilla comes, as well as the seductive story of the fruit. . . . Ecott’s books tells the story of vanilla, the flavoring, and the Vanilla…

Tom Paine

“A good introduction to a complex historical character. . . . Provide[s] an engaging perspective on England, America, and France in the tumultuous years of the late eighteenth century.” –Pauline…

Story of My Life

“[McInerney’s] talent for capturing the nuances and idiosyncrasies of our culture is even more powerfully evident in The Story of My Life . . . Underneath Alison’s hip, partygirl exterior…

The Rose of Martinique

“The Rose of Martinique is a comprehensive and truly empathetic biography. Andrea Stuart, who was raised in the Caribbean, combines scholarly distance with a genuine attempt to understand her heroine.”…

The Player, The Rapture, The New Age

The Player: “A masterpiece! One of the smartest, funniest, most penetrating movies about moviemaking ever made.” –Steven Schiff, Vanity Fair…

Pinball

“Kosinski has created a suspenseful, readable, and unsentimental tale that showcases his love for and knowledge of music and examines the nature of fame and success and the frightening alienation…

Mukiwa

“From time to time a book comes out of Africa that is so good it grips American readers by their hearts. This should be one of them.” –The Washington Post…

Levi’s Children