Dogma

“Yes, Smith enjoys shock value, but this time he makes it mercilessly funny and places it in the context of an obviously devout, enlightened parable. . . . With Dogma…

Carnival

From a Commonwealth Writers Prize–winner for Best First Book comes a stunning new novel that lays bare themes of race and sexuality in a parodic recasting of Hemingway’s The Sun…

The Years, Months, Days

From “one of China’s most successful writers” (The New Yorker), two masterful novellas exploring the stigma of mental illness, the sacrifices made for family, and the desire to leave behind…

The Prague Sonata

From the critically acclaimed author Bradford Morrow, a literary quest novel that travels from Nazi-occupied Prague to turn-of-the-millennium New York as a young musicologist seeks to solve the mystery behind…

The King’s Witch

The first in a trilogy of historical novels set at the dramatic endpoint of the Tudor reign and the dangerous start of the Stuart era

The Book of the Penis

“Spirited, filled with fact and some fancy, emphasizing the penis’s power to drive male behavior but designed to make both women and men more comfortable with the dreaded word–and perhaps…

Country Dark

Chris Offutt’s long-awaited return to fiction after nearly two decades, Country Dark is a fierce noir-inflected novel about a good man pushed by circumstance into crime….

Wrong

World of the Buddha

“Lucien Stryk does here for Buddhism as a whole what he did earlier with Zen. . . . The best available translations have been used. All in all, this is…

The Wooden Spoon Dessert Book

“A masterful job at introducing the novice to techniques and what-ifs.” —The Washington Post…