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…

Dorian

“The most significant way in which Self’s book differs from its predecessor is in its very freedom and frankness. . . . There’s no denying Self’s novel’s cleverness, best displayed…

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 Explanation of the Birds

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…

The Bomb Maker

“There are probably only half a dozen suspense writers alive who can be depended upon to deliver high-voltage shocks; vivid, sympathetic characters; and compelling narratives each time they publish. Thomas…

As God Commands

The award-winning new novel by Niccolò Ammaniti is “a rollickingly dark horror-comic, a grueling piece of fun” by a “fearsomely gifted writer” (The Independent)…

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…