The Dream Police

“The Dream Police fights the context of poetry in a way I can only call urgent and beautiful. He is interested in evacuating all notions of poem to begin again.”…

Closer

The Adventures of Miles and Isabel

“A brilliant flight of seduction. . . . The Adventures of Miles and Isabel is a novel of dreams and fantasy and not a little theatricality, all solidly rooted in…

The Allies Strike Back, 1941-1943

In the second book in this masterful new history of World War II in the West, James Holland tackles the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia, the formal entry of America…

The Typist

The most ambitious novel to date from the award-winning Southern writer Michael Knight, about a green young American posted to the strange realm of post-World War II Japan, where his…

Composing a Life

“A masterwork of rare breadth and particularity, encompassing all the rhythms of five lives and friendships, and interweaving their stories in ways that reveal grand social truths and peculiar personal…

Dr. Ruth’s Guide to Talking About Herpes

“Her energy level is higher than that of a charged particle.” –People…

First Love and Other Shorts

“The cracked and crackling narrator of First Love who tells of how he met a woman on a bench, went back to live with her, and left her as she…

Had a Good Time

“All of these stories are told in the first person, but Butler rarely settles for impressing us with his range of vocal effects. He favors strong plots and strong twists….

King of the Blues

The first full and authoritative biography of an American—indeed a world-wide—musical and cultural legend