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The Two Faces of January

“Her [most recent] novel goes far beyond the bounds of the ‘mystery,’ a genre label that has stuck to Highsmith’s work since her first,…

Two Guys from Verona

“Kaplan’s novel is a view of suburban life as David Lynch might imagine it: as banal as a mini-mall, yet seething with anxiety, eroticism…

The Two-Step

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…

Tyranny of Kindness

“Tyranny of Kindness is a mystery story that finally answers the question: why do the poor in the United States stay poor? With her…

Try

“Written in Mr. Cooper’s taut, chillingly ironic prose. . . Try is about a world under severe emotional repression–a fascistic world of pure sadistic power. . . . As improbable…

Tsotsi

“In lean yet lyrical prose . . . [Athol Fugard] uncannily insinuates himself into the skins of the oppressed majority and articulates its rage…

Tulsa

“This is not a picture book that will lie quietly and without protest on coffee tables. Nor is this book easy to pick up,…

Turbulence

“A rare, richly detailed, and insightful account of life in a Chinese village during the tumultuous decade of post-Mao reforms. With earthy language and…

Turn of Mind

“[Like] Anna Quindlen’s Every Last One—a dread-filled, unputdownable page-turner . . . Skillfully written in the memory-loss first person, the book combines murder mystery…