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. ….

The Balcony

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

Give unto Others

Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly innocent request leads him into troubling waters

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…

Hard Like Water

From a visionary, world-class writer, dubbed “China’s most controversial novelist” by the New Yorker, a gripping and biting story of ambition and betrayal, following two young Communist revolutionaries whose forbidden…

The Last Crossing

“[Vanderhaeghe is] a Dickensian sensationalist. His flair for the lurid can be exquisite. . . . Epic novels can be loose, baggy monsters, but this one is stuffed with enough…

Mantrapped

“In Weldon’s skillful hands, the obsessions of nineties London are picked apart to wonderfully comic effect. . . . If you can just keep up with Weldon’s madcap journey, Mantrapped…

The Pope’s Rhinoceros

“Norfolk’s ferocious, greedy originality of angle and expression evokes continuous astonishment.” –The Times Literary Supplement…

Prince of Pleasure

‘morton”has written a scholarly but highly readable bio, filled with rich analysis and insight. He says more in his limited space than many others could do with three times the…