The Grove Book of Hollywood

“For anyone who enjoys the rich folklore, strange tribal rites, and tarnished idols of the celluloid jungles, the book is a feast.” –Entertainment Weekly…

The Zanzibar Chest

“An extraordinary and heartbreaking book, the finest account of a war correspondent’s psychic wracking since Michael Herr’s Dispatches, and the best white writing from Africa in many, many years.” —Rian…

A Good Man

…of the origins of Canada’s tangled relationship with its big southern neighbor. . . . Vanderhaeghe has delivered an epic that matches its grand ambitions.” —Bob Armstrong, Winnipeg Free Press…

The Breaking of Nations

“Essentially an attempt to bridge the ideological divide between hard and soft power. Both, he suggests in this short, elegant collection of essays, are necessary in today’s messy world.” –The…

Having Everything

“A master of understated, ominous moments in a marriage in which not asking a question can be more disastrous than asking it . . . Sharp, moving, poignant.” –The Washington…

Shrouds of Glory

“Groom peoples his history with vivid characters. Shrouds of Glory effectively evokes the overwhelming momentousness of war.” –Christopher Lehmann–Haupt, The New York Times…

Painted Horses

A big, enthralling debut novel of America in its ascendance, of history versus modernity, and a love story of the West, Painted Horses introduces an extraordinary new literary voice….

The Great Wall

“From its title, one expects a history of the Great Wall, and in that she does not disappoint. But she delivers much, much more . . . Lovell’s book is…

Levi’s Children

The Stendhal Syndrome

“In the opener, a trio of tourists . . . contemplate Michelangelo’s David in hilarious Restoration comedy-like asides as they are overcome by the statue’s, uh, size and power. ….