The Funny Stuff

A compendium of quotes and riffs from more than four decades of writing by P.J. O’Rourke on subjects ranging from government (“Giving money and power to politicians is like giving…

Bream Gives Me Hiccups

The remarkable debut by the Academy Award–nominated actor, famous for his roles in The Social Network and other films, a collection of hilarious, moving, and highly inventive stories that explore…

Complete Plays

Collected Poems in English and French

“Beckett’s voice in verse has the same haunting cadence, the same ‘dour questing,” the same ‘dread nay” we recognize from his drama in prose. Like some ‘death-mask of unrivalled beauty,”…

Forensics

Internationally bestselling crime writer Val McDermid picks up the scalpel to uncover the secrets of forensic science, from the crime scene to the courtroom.

Moscow Exile

From “quite possibly the best historical novelist we have” (Philadelphia Inquirer), the fourth Joe Wilderness spy thriller, moving from Red Scare-era Washington, D.C. to a KGB prison near Moscow’s Kremlin…

Much Depends On Dinner

“Fascinating . . . Margaret Visser is a gifted informal writer, and these chapters combine a wealth of unusual information with extreme readability. . . . In short, Visser whetted…

Night Side of the River

A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” (New York Times), The Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it…

Triple Cross

From British journalist and bestselling author, Tom Bradby, a brilliantly plotted sequel to Double Agent which draws former MI6 agent Kate Henderson back into her quest to unmask a Russian…

Umbrella

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