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Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire

“Precise, gorgeous, and assured.” –Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal…

A Noble Radiance

“Goes a long way to confirming Donna Leon’s claim to have taken literary possession of Venice . . . A Noble Radiance finds her at the height of her power….

Nell Gwyn

“A lively portrait of his famous forebears, along with an account of the theater of the time and the surprisingly parallel worlds of prostitutes and royal mistresses.” –Publishers Weekly…

Nein. A Manifesto

A gleeful yet serious philosophical manifesto in aphorism by the creator of the hugely popular @NeinQuarterly Twitter feed, written in the same “crisp, allusive, irreverent” (New Yorker) voice….

My War Gone By, I Miss It So

Anthony Loyd’s gripping depiction of the depravity of war in Bosnia and Chechnya “places him into the great tradition of Hemingway, Caputo, and Michael Herr.” —The Boston Globe…

My Secret Fishing Life

“I love Nick Lyons’s books. Every sentence is so full and ripe with whatever it is that keeps us fishing–and the minute-by-minute surprise and delight of it.” –Ted Hughes, former…

Mr. Darwin’s Shooter

“Earthy, economical prose . . . wisdom and subtle understanding . . . Evolution, as Mr. Darwin’s Shooter demonstrates, is driven by forces more nuanced and mysterious than the crude…

The Monk

“The Monk is one of the authentic prodigies of English fiction, a book in spite of its various crudenesses so good that even after a century and a half it…

Misconception

“What starts out as a fairly standard story of teenagers taking themselves too seriously ends up being a funny and finely hewn examination of some serious concerns. There are the…