George Washington’s Expense Account

The Balcony

“One of France’s most original and forceful novelists and playwrights.” –The New York Times Book Review…

Let’s Put the Future Behind Us

“Remarkable . . . Mr. Womack has enmeshed his character in a Moscow landscape as absurd and scary as the phantasmagoric Moscow in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. ….

Eleven

“The mood of nagging apprehension is consistent, skillfully underplayed so that just the right amount of chill is induced with an economy of means.” —J. R. Frankes, The New York…

The Devil Is Here in These Hills

From a celebrated labor historian, the definitive chronicle of the fight for freedom by West Virginia coal miners, an important chapter in American history.

Nike Is a Goddess

“We ought to pay attention to the world of professional sports. What happens at the elite levels makes its way into our culture.” –from the conclusion by Lucy Danziger, Editor-in-Chief…

Rhode Island Blues

“One of Fay Weldon’s great gifts is that she can present a serious truth lightly, tossed off as a joke. . . . Rhode Island Blues is well worth reading.”…

My Crazy Century

“Klíma has endured as a writer, endured as a human being, writing of the great themes of freedom, honesty, and love and politics, and gazing with an unsparing eye on…

Return to Blood

From the author of Better the Blood, the gripping second novel in a crime series starring Māori detective Hana Westerman, in which the discovery of human bones in the dunes…

What the Wild Sea Can Be

The acclaimed marine biologist and author of The Brilliant Abyss examines the existential threats the world’s ocean will face in the coming decades and offers cautious optimism for much of…