“If you ask me what I want, I’ll tell you. I want everything.” ―Kathy Acker

…Val McDermid A mysterious bog body leads investigators on a chase through a web of deception and criminality in the latest from one of the most internationally acclaimed authors of…

Preparing for Yan Lianke’s blistering new book, The Day the Sun Died

…something of an unlikely standard-bearer for world protest literature. And yet, increasingly, that’s exactly what he is — a role likely only to be bolstered by his latest work to…

Father’s Day Reads: The Detective

…its aspects: history and tourism, high culture and the changing seasons, food and family, but also violent crime and political corruption. In About Face, her latest mystery, Leon returns to…

Flight of the WASP

Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America’s history.

Remembrance Day

Solitary

The extraordinary saga of a man who, despite spending four decades in solitary confinement for a crime of which he was innocent, inspired fellow prisoners, and now all of us,…

1759

 McLynn’s ability to bring history alive triumphs again in this vivid and elegant story of a pivotal moment in world history….

Within the Context of No Context

“The writing in this book is so extraordinary. It is as if George Trow had dived down in some deep sea and had taken only the most rare, the most…

The White Van

“Gritty, exhilarating . . . The White Van, with its quick and scary turns, provides a hell of a ride; the action never stops—even after the final page.” —Wall Street…

Comrades in Miami

From an acclaimed crime writer, a riveting espionage novel that takes us inside the battle of wits between Cuba and the United States.