Levi’s Children

India

“Keay’s panoramic vision and multidisciplinary approach serves the function of all great historical writing. It illuminates the present.” —Thrity Umrigar, The Boston Globe…

Sewer, Gas & Electric

“Ruff is a protean talent. . . . Very much in the absurdist tradition of Pynchon, Heller, Robbins, and Vonnegut, this is a mad romp through a future that Ruff…

Into Tibet

“A scrupulously documented account of Cold War intrigue. . . . [Provides] a detailed view into the CIA’s shadowy world and the havoc it wreaks on individual lives. . ….

Miracle of the Rose

“Genet can use a brutal phraseology that makes prison life specific and immediate. Yet through his singular sensibility, these elements are transmuted into something fragile, rare, beautiful.” –The New York…

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life

“Brewster and Broughton . . . have written a lively and—to anyone with a more than casual interest in the history of popular music in the latter half of the…

Winkie

“Winkie offers readers a sort of odd, outrageous delight. A verve and a nostalgia . . . that it is no crime to indulge.” —The San Francisco Chronicle…

The White City

A celebrated bestseller in Sweden, and the winner of the prestigious Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize, The White City is a novel “with a vulnerability that brings to mind Cormac…

Ultimatum

“Ultimatum does a better job of convincing the reader about the price the world will pay for its complacency about global warming than any international grandstanding. . . . Glass’s…

Good Value

“A remarkable book . . . Stephen Green weaves together his reflections on economics, geopolitics, history, philosophy, literature, and religion against the background of the current crisis. Deeply challenging as…