Fentanyl, Inc.

A remarkable four-year investigation into the dangerous world of synthetic drugs—from black market drug factories in China to users and dealers on the streets of the U.S. to harm reduction…

She May Not Leave

“One of England’s most superb novelists, could best be described as a 21st-century Thackery. . . . Weldon’s sharp wit and incisive skewering of the mores of the moment make…

Rock Springs

“Beautifully imagined and crafted stories, by turns heartrending and wickedly funny, and just plain wicked. Richard Ford is a born storyteller with an inimitable lyric voice, and Rock Springs is…

Nova Express

“Hypnotic; I wish I could quote, but it takes several pages to get high on this stuff. . . . Funny . . . outrageous along the lines of Burroughs’s…

The Hyphenated American

“[A] memorable volume of collected plays by one of the most hard-working, prolific, talented, tenacious–not to mention incredibly charming–playwrights of our generation.” –Asian Week…

Gould’s Book of Fish

“What’s memorable–even extraordinary–about this book are Flanagan’s aphoristic talent, his imagination and his uncanny ability to channel the Rabelaisian voices of the great picaresque writers–Fielding, Sterne, Smollet. . . ….

Essays in Zen Buddhism

The Journal Keeper

“I loved this singularly honest and graceful book. The Journal Keeper reminds us that there is no such thing as an ordinary moment, and certainly no such thing as an…

A Certain Curve of Horn

“Walker writes with insight and compassion. . . . A Certain Curve of Horn deserves to be ranked with Peter Mathiessen’s classic, The Snow Leopard. It underscores the sanctity of…

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…