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Naked at Lunch

by Mark Haskell Smith

From naked grocery shopping to the Big Nude Boat, a comic novelist turned narrative journalist lays bare the world of the nudist.

Lyrics Alley

by Leila Aboulela

“Haunting . . . Keeps the reader gripped . . . A tale of powerful feelings and potent words . . . this visceral, epic novel . . . gives…

Berlin in Lights

by Harry Kessler

“What distinguishes his diary is Kessler’s distanziert tone–its elegance, precision and shrewdness. The man who brought his gifts of mind to bear on the tragic carnival of his era was…

World Made by Hand

by James Howard Kunstler

“Far from a typical post-apocalyptic novel. It caters neither to a pseudo-morbid nor faddishly slick vision of the future. Though grim with portent, it is ultimately, as Camus’s novel The…

Stevenson Under the Palm Trees

by Alberto Manguel

“A miniature Gothic horror story that Stevenson himself and even Henry James would have found chilling.” –Anna Mundow, The Boston Globe…

The Good Remains

by Nani Power

“Power is adept at creating a cast of voices. . . . Every one of Power’s dozen or so characters brims with life and goofiness and . . . human…

A Question of Belief

by Donna Leon

“The humid, oppressive Venetian summer is palpable in Donna Leon’s 19th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery. . . . Leon creates such a rich sense of place that reading often feels…

Grove at Home: August 30—September 5

…for French TV, touching on cultural definitions of solitude, the legacies of colonialism on her reading habits, the memory of “the hell of partition” in South Asia, and much more,…

The Betrayal

by Helen Dunmore

Short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South Asia and Europe), Helen Dunmore’s sequel to her best-selling novel, The Siege, is an enthralling tale of one family struggling for survival in…

Light

by Margaret Elphinstone

“Richly detailed . . . Elphinstone takes genuine pleasure in her imagined reality. . . . She bestows on all her characters strengths and flaws, creating a remarkably convincing reality….