Guests of the Ayatollah

by Mark Bowden

“Heart-stopping, and heart-breaking.” —James Traub, New York Times Book Review…

The Divine Husband

by Francisco Goldman

“The Divine Husband presents the peculiar crossroads where love and imagination meet politics and history. . . . A great miscegenating carnival of ambition and desire.” —Lee Siegel, The New…

Red Birds

by Mohammed Hanif

From the prize-winning author hailed as “Pakistan’s brightest voice” (Guardian), comes a powerful and darkly satirical novel about the the harsh, absurd hypocrisies of American intervention in the Muslim world…

Open Me

by Lisa Locascio

A political and erotically-charged debut that follows a young American woman’s transformative journey during one pivotal summer abroad hailed by Viet Thanh Nguyen as “unflinching in its portrayal of sex,…

Word Virus

by William S. Burroughs

…on the nod, Mark Twain with a gun . . . . Word Virus [is] a fantastic, weird, disturbing and intriguing tribute to an inimitable American voice.” –Mark Luce, Salon…

The Typist

by Michael Knight

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 post-World War II Japan, where his…

Reviving the Spirit

by Beverly Hall Lawrence

“The historical role of the church during slavery and the civil rights movement has always kept this institution at the center of the African American community. . . . The…