The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

…fascination what it lacks in outward event. Because there is no biography of Pessoa in English, Zenith’s confessedly ‘heavily editorial intervention’ –a chronological arrangement and lavish contextualization of these selected…

Secessia

From the immensely talented author of The Blood of Heaven, compared by reviewers to Faulkner, O’Connor, and McCarthy, comes a gothic portrait of a city ravaged by war and struck…

The Sexual Outlaw

Sean Penn

“Kelly draws on a rich array of exclusive interviews. . . . Film buffs and aspiring actors and screenwriters . . . will find much to enjoy.” –Judith Wynn, The…

Road Work

“[Bowden] excels at sharply drawn, painstakingly reported stories about losers, oddballs and con men. . . . Fashioning prose that reads like good fiction, with the bonus that his stories…

The River

“The River introduces the reader to an intriguing cast of people, called by accident or circumstance, into the small English village of Cameldip. Wastvedt has an astonishing ability to bring…

Ritual

“Mo Hayder has utterly mastered the art of suspense. Ritual moves from the eerie and dangerous to the downright ferocious as steadily as an oncoming train. Her characters are full,…

The Retreat

“In The Retreat, a novel much praised for its level of historical detail, French writer Patrick Rambaud locates little grandeur in the ghastly carnage of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. ….

Republican Party Reptile

“To say that P. J. O’Rourke is funny is like saying the Rocky Mountains are scenic–accurate but insufficient. At his best he’s downright exhilarating . . . Republican Party Reptile…

Remnants of the First Earth

Dazzlingly original, but with deep roots in his traditional Mesquakie culture, Young Bear is a master wordsmith poised with trickster-like aplomb between the ancient world of his forefathers and the…