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Pot Planet

by Brian Preston

“A gimlet-eyed and often hilarious account of the author’s round-the-world reefer safari. With Britain’s downscaling of penalties for marijuana possession currently stirring up controversy, Preston’s book comes along at a…

One in Three

by Adam Wishart

“Calming and illuminating . . . Plenty of anecdotal vigor . . . Wishart has done copious research and used it to shape a story more gripping than frightening. ….

Night Train to Lisbon

by Pascal Mercier

“Rich, dense, star-spangled . . . The novels of Robert Stone come to mind, and Elias Canetti’s Auto-da-Fe, and Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, and Kobo Abe’s The Ruined Map,…

Neutral Buoyancy

by Tim Ecott

“Ecott excels at quixotic explorations of corners of the dive world. . . . It should be awarded a place on any diver’s reference shelf for tasty tidbits of history…

Mary Shelley

by Miranda Seymour

“A thoughtfully considered, lifelike portrait of a complex, often misunderstood character . . . sensitive and intelligent.” –Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times…

The Long Night of White Chickens

by Francisco Goldman

“A remarkable novel. . . . Accruing vivid new details at every turn, Roger’s account gives the reader the most immediate possible sense of a country and its people, the…

Lingo

by Gaston Dorren

A whirlwind armchair tour of Europe through its languages, from Gaelic to Gagauz, Macedonian to Monégasque, covering six thousand years of history and sixty languages in bite-size chapters….

Joe Speedboat

by Tommy Wieringa

A “witty, thoughtful, and surprisingly tender” (The Independent) novel about two boys on the far side of trauma and the improbable friendship that grants them both the chance for a…

Travesties

by Tom Stoppard

A speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of three profoundly influential men—James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin—in a germinal Europe

Acid Dreams

by Martin Lee

“Engaging throughout. . . . At once entertaining and disturbing.” –Andrew Weil, M.D., The Nation…