The Cry of the Owl

“Kafka with a vengeance.” —The Spectator (London)…

Beyond the Game

“A book you should read . . . Smith weaves stories of heroes and anti-heroes alike with grace and compassion, getting inside his subjects in a way that makes you…

Cities

Declared “the most enjoyable book ever written about the matter of the city” (The Times, London), this is a magisterial exploration of these defining artifacts of civilization….

The Explorers

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…

Among the Dead

“Forceful . . . moves forward relentlessly like a very commercial film or a very hungry shark.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times…

Light

“Richly detailed . . . Elphinstone takes genuine pleasure in her imagined reality. . . . She bestows on all her characters strengths and flaws, creating a remarkably convincing reality….

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

A Personal Matter

“In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both.” –Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor…

Finding Florida

“A rich and lively history of Florida, minus the Disney gloss. . . . [Allman] shatters five centuries of mythmaking to tell the real story . . . A splendid…