Troll

“[An] imaginative and engaging novel of urban fantasy. . . . Overlapping narrative voices nicely underscore the moral of Sinisalo’s ingeniously constructed fable: The stuff of ancient legend shadows with…

Woodcuts of Women

…of dirty pillows and the scent of “the burning skin of green chile,” of sharp sexual attractions and the hundred intimacies and antagonisms between men and women, are like no…

Misconception

“What starts out as a fairly standard story of teenagers taking themselves too seriously ends up being a funny and finely hewn examination of some serious concerns. There are the…

Querelle

“Querelle is a sailor, assassin, dealer in opium, homosexual, thief, and traitor. . . . Genet takes seriously the threat latent in sexuality, and drags us with him to a…

In the City of Shy Hunters

Spanbauer has inserted his character, the Shy Hunter, into the mythology of the real Lower East Side of Manhattan. Surely many will want to follow his steps after reading In…

Remembrance Day

House Reckoning

When congressional fixer Joe DeMarco finds out the truth about his father’s murder, he must decide how far he will go for revenge….

Shifty’s Boys

Army-CID-officer-cum-unofficial-PI Mick Hardin is up against unforeseen forces who will stop at nothing in this vividly atmospheric thriller from acclaimed novelist Chris Offutt

The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satires

“A fascinating panorama of a paradoxical society. All of the stories, whether lightly spoofing rattlebrained bureaucracy or heavily laden with sarcasm, are well-written and entertaining.” —St. Petersburg Times…

The Butterfly Mosque

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…