Blue Genes and Star Struck

Private eye Kate Brannigan confronts betrayal and cold-blooded greed as she investigates the alien world of medical experimentation and the underbelly of the rock music business.

Ends and Odds

“In the realms of annihilation, the writing of Samuel Beckett rises like a Miserere from all mankind, it’s muffled minor key sounding liberation to the oppressed and comfort to those…

How the Hell Did This Happen?

An essential take on the stranger-than-fiction 2016 presidential elections from a quintessential voice on American politics and culture.

Scotland

The Zanzibar Chest

“An extraordinary and heartbreaking book, the finest account of a war correspondent’s psychic wracking since Michael Herr’s Dispatches, and the best white writing from Africa in many, many years.” —Rian…

In Ascension

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass…

I Cheerfully Refuse

A career defining tour-de-force from New York Times bestselling, award-winning and “formidably gifted” (Chicago Tribune) novelist Leif Enger….

Umbrella

A history of the entire twentieth-century’s technological searchlight refracted through the dark glass of a long-term mental institution….

Dogleg Madness

“The thrill of the first tee shot of the U.S. Open, the agony of the shank on the muni course–they’re all here in Mike Bryan’s Dogleg Madness, an account of…

The Best of It

“Melancholy lucidity is Ryan’s greatest gift, and it can be heard in all her most successful poems. But her most startling discovery is that melancholy, with its tendency to brood…