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

Auto da Fay

“All the characteristics of Weldon’s fiction–stinging wit, jaunty prose, memorable bon mots–are present in this kaleidoscope peregrination through six decades of picaresque adventures. . . . [Weldon’s] own life has…

The Answer Is Never

‘sharp and winning. . . . [Weyland] is at his best when he writes about what skating gave him as a kid–what it’s like to awaken to a sense of…

Annabel

Award-winning Canadian author Kathleen Winter’s Annabel is a stunning debut novel about the family of a mixed-gendered child born into a rural hunting community in the 1960s….

The Balcony

“One of France’s most original and forceful novelists and playwrights.” –The New York Times Book Review…

George Washington’s Expense Account

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…

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. ….

The China Dream

“An entertaining, if cautionary, tale of Western business woes in China, stretching back seven hundred years and including, naturally, the woes of recent years.” —Peter Wonacott, The Wall Street Journal…

Full Service

“In this shocking exposé, Bowers finally reveals his sexual liaisons with the rich and famous, sparing no details along the way. . . . Bowers has no regrets—having led a…