George Washington’s Expense Account

Let’s Put the Future Behind Us

“Remarkable . . . Mr. Womack has enmeshed his character in a Moscow landscape as absurd and scary as the phantasmagoric Moscow in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. ….

Blown

Biting satire and criminal mischief abound in Mark Haskell Smith’s new novel that follows a Wall Street trader who disappears—with millions in stolen cash—and the madcap team of investigators on…

The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration of the psychology of sex. Lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, it was later retrieved but…

Bongwater

“Bongwater is one of the coolest books of the year. Hornburg explodes the whole grunge mythos by taking it out of the realm of the flash photo spread and giving…

A Confederacy of Dunces

“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.” –The New York Times Book Review…

A Refiner’s Fire

In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti confronts a present-day Venetian menace and the ghosts of a heroism that never was

Goodnight, Nobody

“Arresting. Stylistically, Knight slaloms through old-fashioned noir and snarky postmodernism, and from Barthelmean set pieces to a riff on Stonewall Jackson that evokes one of Barry Hannah’s Civil War fever…

The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett

“Ackerley and Gontarski have amassed an amazing amount of information about Samuel Beckett and his works, which constitutes The Grove Companion. The volume will prove useful to everyone–from the neophyte…