Goodnight, Nobody

“Arresting. Stylistically, Knight slaloms through old-fashioned noir and snarky postmodernism, and from Barthelmean set pieces to a riff on Stonewall Jackson that evokes one of Barry Hannah’s Civil War fever…

The Art of Political Murder

“The Art of Political Murder is both a page-turner and a searing indictment of a corrosive brand of politics that has overwhelmed a nation . . . In these dark…

Elements of Fiction

Following his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, award-winning author Walter Mosley delivers an eloquent treatise on the craft of fiction writing—part writing guide, part study of…

Let’s Put the Future Behind Us

“Remarkable . . . Mr. Womack has enmeshed his character in a Moscow landscape as absurd and scary as the phantasmagoric Moscow in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. ….

On a Wave

“More than an account of a sport mastered. It’s a sharp, self-conscious portrait of the artist as a young grommet.” –The New Yorker…

Wrong

What Are You Like?

“An eloquent writer . . . dazzlingly funny. . . . For Enright the recognizable dimensions of time, speech, and thought . . . are fluid and interchangeable, while metaphors…

Sick Girl

“[Sick Girl] shocked me. It was a revelation. I couldn’t stop reading it. . . . It’s a book that made me shake my head in disbelief with every chapter….

Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!

“Rouse Up is a series of linked, meditative stories that examine Nobel laureate Oe’s changing relationship with his adolescent brain-damaged son through the prism of [William] Blake’s poetry . ….

A Quiet Life

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