They’re Cows, We’re Pigs

“A word-drunk picaresque novel . . . Boullosa’s vivid and visceral descriptions provide hallucinatory images of the pirates’ raping and pillaging, their battles in the jungle and at sea.” –The…

Tamburlaine Must Die

“Welsh’s novel is as quick and dark as a child’s nightmare. . . . Fictionalizes Marlowe’s last days with novelistic wit and interpretive imagination. . . . Every line of…

Steps

“By some miracle of training, which recalls the linguistic bravado of Conrad and Nabokov, he is already a master of pungent and disciplined English prose. Simply as a stylist, Kosinski…

The Spy’s Son

The captivating true story of the highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage, and the devoted son who followed him into the family spy business.

A Spell of Winter

“[Dunmore] beautifully captures paranoia, how it feels to wonder if people smell guilt on your skin and–most powerfully–how you can rationalize an act until you convince yourself it never even…

Sons and Other Flammable Objects

“Punchy conversation, vivid detail, sharp humor . . . Khakpour brings her characters vividly to life; their flaws and feints at intimacy feel poignantly real, and their journeys generate real…

Small Craft Advisory

“If the point of reading a memoir is to meet a person who is truly good company, and maybe to have a little wisdom rub off at the same time,…

Silent Snow

“A riveting narrative as notable for its conversational fluency as for the clarity of its alarming information. . . . Cone’s superb and affecting delineation of the Arctic’s chemical crisis…

Sexus

“At times uproariously funny . . . may be Miller’s masterpiece.” —Choice…

The Sexual Outlaw