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Remembering the Bones

by Frances Itani

“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

by Trezza Azzopardi

…of diction to describe them. Throughout Remember Me, Azzopardi maintains a curious and delicate balance between the harshness of Lillian’s half-perceived life and the faint shimmers of hope that wash…

The Raymond Chandler Papers

by Tom Hiney

“Chandler, the premiere practictioner of the American hard-boiled detective novel, elevated the wisecrack into a rhetorical figure somewhere between sarcasm and simile. For the Chandler fan, The Raymond Chandler Papers…

The Qur’an

by Bruce Lawrence

“Timely and provocative. . . . Laurence’s history of the Qur’an [is] highly instructive. . . . The history of the book is a map of the world we live…

A Question of Belief

by Donna Leon

“The humid, oppressive Venetian summer is palpable in Donna Leon’s 19th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery. . . . Leon creates such a rich sense of place that reading often feels…

The Collected Shorter Plays

by Samuel Beckett

“Beckett stalks after men on their way out. . . . His plays and novels (Molloy, Murphy) are metaphors of modern man’s spiritual bafflement.” —Time…

Prosperous Friends

by Christine Schutt

“Give me the tough, adamantine beauty of Christine Schutt’s writing any day. Her new novel . . . is Portrait of a Lady one hundred and thirty years on, except…

Plexus

by Henry Miller

“Plexus is the core volume in The Rosy Crucifixion: the volume which has the most complete description of Henry Miller’s basic values, beliefs, opinions, judgments, both at the time of…

Plato’s Republic

by Simon Blackburn

“Plato’s Republic . . . which Blackburn rightly suggests is the first book to shake the world, is loaded with perennial questions that every generation must struggle with. How are…

Pig Island

by Mo Hayder

“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.”…