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The Rebels’ Hour

by Lieve Joris

“[The Rebels’ Hour] achieves intense intimacy with a few characters to represent a much more immense historical experience. . . . It is as deeply reported and directly observed as…

Raymond Chandler

by Tom Hiney

“A skillful treatment . . . of the frequently muddled life of the writer who elevated crime fiction to widely acknowledged eminence.” –The New York Times Book Review…

A Quiet Life

by Kenzaburo Oe

“[These] ordinary lives . . . are movingly illuminated . . . portraits drawn with affection, insight and that wry humor . . . that is one of the defining…

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…

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…

A Place to Stand

by Jimmy Santiago Baca

“The finest memoir I’ve read in I don’t know how long. It reminded me of the rawness of George Orwell combined with the human exuberance of Neruda’s memoirs. . ….

The Core of the Sun

by Johanna Sinisalo

From the queen of “Finnish weird,” a captivating and witty speculative satire of a Handmaid’s Tale-esque welfare state where women are either breeders or outcasts, addicts chase the elusive high…

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.”…

Period

by Dennis Cooper

“A fascinating, intricately crafted jewel of a book . . . It’s a book one could read over and over and never exhaust.” –Dodie Bellamy, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review…