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The China Dream

“An entertaining, if cautionary, tale of Western business woes in China, stretching back seven hundred years and including, naturally, the woes of recent years.”…

Christmas Days

A transporting new collection of Christmas stories from “one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time” (Elle), master storyteller Jeanette Winterson.

Christodora

A novel of great scope and ambition, Christodora is a bold and poignant portrait of the bohemian Manhattan of sex, drugs, art, and activism…

The CEO of the Sofa

“Not content to rest on his laurels, the bestselling humorist O’Rourke instead settles back on his caustic couch to offer a wide-angled worldview from…

Cereus Blooms at Night

“Shani Mootoo digs deep into the heart of classic storytelling, expanding, sculpting, and molding what is expected into a completely fresh approach to narrative….

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…

Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused

“In contrast to the utopian official literature of Communist China, the stories in this wide-ranging collection marshal wry humor, entangled sex, urban alienation, nasty…

The Changeling

“It is a richly imagined, complex story full of the oddity, irony, and existential angst that have long been at the heart of Oe’s…