The Return of the Caravels

“A twenty-first-century modernist heir to the narrative collage technique championed by such masters as Ferdinand C”line, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garc”a M”rquez, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, and Italo Calvino…

The Ordinary Seaman

“A stunningly well-written second novel from a major talent of great style and soul.” —The Miami Herald…

Beyond the Game

“A book you should read . . . Smith weaves stories of heroes and anti-heroes alike with grace and compassion, getting inside his subjects in a way that makes you…

At the Full and Change of the Moon

“[Brand has] a lush and exuberant style that may put some readers in mind of Toni Morrison or Edwidge Danticat.” –The New York Times Book Review…

Dona Ines vs. Oblivion

“Moves with languid dignity . . . Doña Inés’s cranky, engaging, importuning, resentful, obsessed and relentless voice guides us through a family history that is also mired in Venezuelan history.”…

Stern

“What makes Friedman more interesting than most of Malamud, Roth and Bellow is the sense he affords of possibilities larger than the doings and undoings of the Jewish urban bourgeois’.What…

Killing Pablo

“The story of how U.S. Army Intelligence and Delta Force commandos helped Colombian police track down and kill Pablo Escobar. . . . A compelling, almost Shakespearean tale.” –Los Angeles…

Father’s Day Reads

…whose social codes are every bit as nuanced as the British aristocracy, Country Dark blends the best of Larry Brown and James M. Cain, with a noose tightening evermore around…

Remembrance Day

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