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 Explosion Chronicles

With his distinctive style that blends mythology and realism, satire and fantasy, Yan Lianke—one of the most acclaimed Chinese writers of his generation—returns with an unforgettable tale of three families…

The Explorers

An Expensive Education

“An Expensive Education blends a terse story of international intrigue with a biting satire of Harvard . . . Smart and sexy and could be the beginning of a franchise…

Every Man a Menace

From a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award finalist comes a vital, edgy new novel centered on a massive shipment of ecstasy and the group of ex-cons, scam artists, nightclub…

Editors on Editing

“A superb collection of essays–wise, original, and “educational” in the best sense of the word. Every publisher, editor, writer and agent should buy at least one copy and then a…

Easy in the Islands

“[Shacochis’s] stories have an unselfconscious narrative momentum–a linear drive toward an ending–that I associate with the easy ways of an old master . . . I think this boy’s been…

The Driftless Area

“Drury ties up all the threads (Shane, the fire, Stella) with consummate skill. . . . The bittersweet ending is a perfect mix of light and dark. Drury is a…

Dream of Ding Village

“A sorrowful but captivating novel about the price of progress in modern China. The book, which was censored in that country, builds to an act of violence that resonates with…

Dream Angus

“Elegant . . . Spare, polished . . . Smith fluidly weaves in contemporary vignettes.” —Publishers Weekly…