Search Results for: American

Empire’s Crossroads

by Carrie Gibson

A gripping narrative history of the entire Caribbean, from first exploration to today, by a talented British American historian.

The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

by Tom Spanbauer

…it is dark, full of fictional and philosophical pleasures, a quirky, unsettling look at American history and a vision quest in the grand old tradition.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review…

Kill Hole

by Jamake Highwater

“An extremely literate compelling fiction about timeless human dilemmas. . . . A Native American answer not only to Kafka’s The Trial but Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and Albert…

The Long Fuse

by Don Cook

“Delineating the political culture of corruption and bribery that pervaded London and disgusted Americans like Benjamin Franklin, Cook convincingly concludes that the war was lost as much in London as…

David Mamet

David Mamet is the author of the plays Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award), American Buffalo, A Life in the Theater, Speed-the-Plow,…

Evensong

by Stewart O'Nan

Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize 2026 “Stewart O’Nan has been one of the best chroniclers of the lives of American women.”—Susan Straight An intimate, moving novel that follows…

A Carnivore’s Inquiry

by Sabina Murray

The spellbinding new book by the winner of the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award is a gripping, literary psychological thriller about a young woman and a peculiar taste for flesh…

The Tremor of Forgery

by Patricia Highsmith

“Highsmith has produced work as serious in its implications and as subtle in its approach as anything being done in the novel today.” —Julian Symons…

The Toughest Indian in the World

by Sherman Alexie

“Alexie reveals himself to be a more fearless writer than one might ever have imagined; the stories are bold, uncensored, raucous, and sexy.” –Ken Foster, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review…

Painted Horses

by Malcolm Brooks

A big, enthralling debut novel of America in its ascendance, of history versus modernity, and a love story of the West, Painted Horses introduces an extraordinary new literary voice….