The House of Morgan

“As a portrait of finance, politics, and the world of avarice and ambition on Wall Street, the book has the movement and tension of an epic novel. It is, quite…

House Odds

“Odds favor a good time for the reader as DeMarco faces his eighth case: a looming insider trading scandal with potentially fatal consequences. . . . One of the most…

Hitching Rides with Buddha

“Humorous, honest.” –Kliatt…

Heathern

“An exciting sci-fi stylist . . . Womack’s imaginative projection of our imminent fate is crippling.” –People…

Goodbye Tsugumi

“Yoshimoto’s words are considered, and each of them has the weight of a small, perfectly round stone dropped into a still pool. . . . In Tsugumi the author has…

A Girl Could Stand Up

“Elray Mayhew is one of the truly original literary heroines of the past few decades. . . . A Girl Could Stand Up is the kind of novel that one…

From Where You Dream

“Butler shares his insights into—and passion for—the creation and experience of fiction with total openness, and seriously aspiring writers should receive this text/manifesto in the same light.” —Publishers Weekly (starred…

The Fourth Angel

Far from Heaven, Safe, and Superstar

“Writer-director Todd Haynes makes you drunk on movies again. Talk about movie heaven–this is it. No film this year cuts a straighter path to the heart.” –Pete Travers, Rolling Stone…

The Fall of the Stone City

A rich short novel in Kadare’s unique style, The Fall of the Stone City is a tale of dictatorship, resistance, and magic, set in the most tumultuous period of Albania’s…