Victory 1918

“Victory 1918 covers all the theaters of war, not only the muck and mire of France. . . . [It] provides food for thought and reflection on the futility of…

In France Profound

From the National Book Award-longlisted author of Finding Florida, a sparkling, sweeping chronicle of the author’s life and discoveries in a town in “Deep France,” from nearby prehistoric caves to…

February

“Luminous . . . Moore offers us, elegantly, exultantly, the very consciousness of her characters. In this way, she does more than make us feel for them. She makes us…

The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad

“Boylan’s narrative resembles Joyce at his comically prolix best, with a similar appetite for vernacular nuance and pop allusion.” –The Village Voice…

Repetition

Exhibits a sensibility as nervous and contemporary–not to mention witty–as that of any novelist working today. . . . Objects play as dramatic a role in Repetition as do characters….

Under Radar

…. . .Tolkin harnesses the image-making faculty in a reader’s brain and puts it to work in the service of his own uniquely moral storytelling.” –David Kipen, The San Francisco…

Essays in Zen Buddhism

Harlem

“[A] panoramic history . . . Gill blends high-density research, political and cultural sophistication, and narrative drive to produce an epic worthy of its fabled subject.” —Edward Kosner, The Wall…

Love for Sale

“Contains enough scholarly detail to allow one to employ the “I read Playboy for the articles’ defense.” –Jared Paul Stern, New York Post…

On the Missionary Trail

“On the Missionary Trail . . . illuminate[s] the struggles of the nineteenth-century men and women who risked–and often lost–their lives to bring Christianity and civilization to the remotest corners…