Miracle of the Rose

“Genet can use a brutal phraseology that makes prison life specific and immediate. Yet through his singular sensibility, these elements are transmuted into something fragile, rare, beautiful.” –The New York…

Father’s Day Reads: The Explorer

…Mexico to Colombia. Beginning in the Yucatán—and moving south through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama—Wood’s journey takes him from sleepy barrios to glamorous cities to ancient Mayan…

Tom Paine

“A good introduction to a complex historical character. . . . Provide[s] an engaging perspective on England, America, and France in the tumultuous years of the late eighteenth century.” –Pauline…

Having Everything

“A master of understated, ominous moments in a marriage in which not asking a question can be more disastrous than asking it . . . Sharp, moving, poignant.” –The Washington…

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…

Levi’s Children

Second Violin

“Smart and gracefully written . . . It has been Lawton’s achievement to capture, in first-rate popular fiction, the courage and drama—and the widespread tomorrow-we-may-die exuberance—of that terrible and thrilling…

Matterhorn

A big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran.

Purge

“A bravura work, deeply engaged with [Estonia’s] knotted history, sparing but potent in its use of irony, and containing an empathic treatment of all the miserable choices Estonians faced during…

May Contain Nuts

In the tradition of Tom Perrotta’s Little Children and Nick Hornby comes a hilarious look at the perils of parenthood, from one of England‘s best-selling satirical writers….