Paris in the Dark

In the new Christopher Marlowe Cobb thriller, Robert Olen Butler’s intrepid newspaperman-turned-spy tracks a German saboteur through the streets of the Great War-dimmed City of Lights

The Mekong

“For those who have not read about the exploration of the Mekong or the discovery of Angkor and the impact it had on the outside world, there is perhaps no…

Cardiff, by the Sea

Joyce Carol Oates, the “grand mistress of ghoulishness” (Publishers Weekly), showcases her mastery in four deeply disturbing novellas that will leave the reader both quaking and pining for more…

Zodiac

“[Stephenson] captures the nuance and the rhythm of the new world so perfectly that one almost thinks that it is already here.” —The Washington Post…

Where’d You Get That Funk From?

What Are You Like?

…. . . are fluid and interchangeable, while metaphors often become the things they stand for. . . . [A] very powerful story.” —Penelope Fitzgerald, The London Review of Books…

Walking to Hollywood

“Self’s ultimate vision . . . is described in dazzling bursts of verbal pyrotechnics. . . . The language here is as rich as Vladimir Nabokov’s, the rage as deep…

Waiting for Godot

“One of the true masterpieces of the century.” —Clive Barnes, The New York Times…

The Voyeur’s Motel

From Gay Talese, a remarkable new work of reportage more than thirty years in the making.

An Untamed State

“Clear your schedule now! Once you start this book, you will not be able to put it down. An Untamed State is a novel of hope intermingled with fear ….