The Poker Bride

“The Poker Bride is a gorgeously written and brilliantly researched saga of America during the mad flush of its biggest Gold Rush. Christopher Corbett’s genius is to anchor his larger…

Lovers for a Day

“Klíma is simply not read widely enough in the U.S. . . . A master of the significant detail–telling only that which is essential.” –Brad Hooper, Booklist…

Havana World Series

“An entertaining and suspenseful story. . . . [Latour] has managed to capture the sights, sounds, smells and rhythms of Havana in a way that is as much nostalgic as…

The Middleman and Other Stories

“Bharati Mukherjee, in this astonishing second book of short stories, zeroes in on uneasy terrain that no one has looked at with quite so clear an eye since approximately World…

T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.

“Shakur produces a visceral and strikingly real portrayal of gang life in Los Angeles, replete with sudden and inexplicable violence, revenge, betrayal, ostentatious living, racism, the strong arm of law…

Cockpit

“A dazzling succession of . . . erotic episodes . . . Cockpit defines itself (as Kosinski does his hero) by the suicidal chances it takes . . . brilliantly…

Levi’s Children

The Beholder’s Eye

“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…

The Anniversary

Longlisted for the Stella Prize For fans of Lisa Halliday and Susan Choi, The Anniversary is a simmering page-turner about an ascendant writer, the unresolved death of her husband, and…

The Stendhal Syndrome

“In the opener, a trio of tourists . . . contemplate Michelangelo’s David in hilarious Restoration comedy-like asides as they are overcome by the statue’s, uh, size and power. ….