The Subterraneans

“Each book by Kerouac is unique, a telepathic discord. Such rich, natural writing is nonpareil in the later twentieth century.” —Allen Ginsberg…

Stern

“What makes Friedman more interesting than most of Malamud, Roth and Bellow is the sense he affords of possibilities larger than the doings and undoings of the Jewish urban bourgeois’.What…

Steps

“By some miracle of training, which recalls the linguistic bravado of Conrad and Nabokov, he is already a master of pungent and disciplined English prose. Simply as a stylist, Kosinski…

The Spy’s Son

The captivating true story of the highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage, and the devoted son who followed him into the family spy business.

A Spell of Winter

“[Dunmore] beautifully captures paranoia, how it feels to wonder if people smell guilt on your skin and–most powerfully–how you can rationalize an act until you convince yourself it never even…

Sons and Other Flammable Objects

“Punchy conversation, vivid detail, sharp humor . . . Khakpour brings her characters vividly to life; their flaws and feints at intimacy feel poignantly real, and their journeys generate real…

Sleep Talkin’ Man

What would you do if late one night your loved one shouted, “Don’t let the midget out of the wardrobe”? Based on the side-splitting viral blog of the same name,…

Sexus

“At times uproariously funny . . . may be Miller’s masterpiece.” —Choice…

The Sexual Outlaw

Seven Centuries of English Cooking