Remembering the Bones

“With this book, Itani joins a group of novelists who have chronicled quiet lives from start to finish, uncovering treasure in their dark corners. . . . building such emotionally…

Remember Me

…stealth and skill. . . . [The] passages of beauty–and they are many–do not jar because the author has created a complete world for them, fashioned a calm, coherent form…

Raymond Chandler

“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…

Pig Island

“Mo Hayder, who writes dark, perfect thrillers . . . now spins a shivery tale about a cult on the west coast of Scotland, where the weather nourishes bleak menace.”…

Palestine

“Relating the story of Palestine through his own family, Karl Sabbagh (the son of a Palestinian father and an English mother) gives a poignant, often shocking account of how Palestine…

Off the Map

“Fleming recounts the dizzying lives and eccentric quirks of 55 of our most fearless explorers.” –Tyler Cabot, Esquire…

Numbers

Nell Gwyn

“A lively portrait of his famous forebears, along with an account of the theater of the time and the surprisingly parallel worlds of prostitutes and royal mistresses.” –Publishers Weekly…

Love and Death on Long Island

“A very funny portrait of an extraordinarily unworldly academic’s introduction to the dizzyingly incomprehensible realm of popular culture.” –Nick Hornby…

The Forever Prisoner

Some argued it would save the U.S. after 9/11. Instead, the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program came to be defined as American torture. The Forever Prisoner, a primary source for the…