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The Raymond Chandler Papers
by Tom Hiney“Chandler, the premiere practictioner of the American hard-boiled detective novel, elevated the wisecrack into a rhetorical figure somewhere between sarcasm and simile. For the Chandler fan, The Raymond Chandler Papers…
Land Between the Rivers
by Bartle BullThe epic, five millennia history of the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that was the birthplace of civilization and remains today the essential crossroads between East and West
Raymond Chandler
by Tom Hiney“A skillful treatment . . . of the frequently muddled life of the writer who elevated crime fiction to widely acknowledged eminence.” –The New York Times Book Review…
The Best of It
by Kay Ryan“Melancholy lucidity is Ryan’s greatest gift, and it can be heard in all her most successful poems. But her most startling discovery is that melancholy, with its tendency to brood…
The Qur’an
by Bruce Lawrence“Timely and provocative. . . . Laurence’s history of the Qur’an [is] highly instructive. . . . The history of the book is a map of the world we live…
A Quiet Life
by Kenzaburo Oe“[These] ordinary lives . . . are movingly illuminated . . . portraits drawn with affection, insight and that wry humor . . . that is one of the defining…
A Question of Belief
by Donna Leon“The humid, oppressive Venetian summer is palpable in Donna Leon’s 19th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery. . . . Leon creates such a rich sense of place that reading often feels…
Querelle
by Jean Genet…and traitor. . . . Genet takes seriously the threat latent in sexuality, and drags us with him to a confrontation with the basest of angels.” –Michael Levenson, Harper’s Magazine…
Prosperous Friends
by Christine Schutt“Give me the tough, adamantine beauty of Christine Schutt’s writing any day. Her new novel . . . is Portrait of a Lady one hundred and thirty years on, except…
The Cellar
by Minette Walters“Reads like a recipe for evil and may well induce a nightmare or two . . . Sly pacing and a detached narrative voice give this horror story exceptional punch.”…
