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Mexico

by Paul Gillingham

A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2025 From acclaimed and prize-winning historian Paul Gillingham, a rich and vibrant history of one of the world’s most diverse, politically ground-breaking, and…

Brown Dog

by Jim Harrison

“Brown Dog is . . . vividly, evocatively alive. . . . These novellas read like a nuanced conversation between author and character. . . . Masterful.” —David Ulin, Los…

John Woman

by Walter Mosley

From the award-winning Walter Mosley comes a dazzling novel of ideas about the sexual and intellectual coming-of-age of an unusual man who goes by the name Woman.

Zappa

by Barry Miles

The definitive biography of religion-baiting, Republican-hating, chain-smoking, coffee-addicted, classically trained guitar virtuoso Frank Zappa.

World Made by Hand

by James Howard Kunstler

“Far from a typical post-apocalyptic novel. It caters neither to a pseudo-morbid nor faddishly slick vision of the future. Though grim with portent, it is ultimately, as Camus’s novel The…

Witches on the Road Tonight

by Sheri Holman

“Holman is a master of the miniature. She uses tiny, achingly accurate details to bring each moment to life on the page; her sentences sing. . . . This richly…

Turpentine

by Spring Warren

“With a pitch-perfect narrator and a smorgasbord of sensory detail, Spring Warren brings the Old West back to life. Turpentine casts the rebirth of a privileged young man finding self-truth…

Topsy

by Michael Daly

“Michael Daly vividly revives a rollicking pachydermal tale that riveted New Yorkers a century ago.” —New York Times…

A Splendid Exchange

by William J. Bernstein

“[An] entertaining and greatly enlightening book . . . Bernstein is a fine writer and knows how to tell a great story . . . He never loses sight of…

South Beach

by Brian Antoni

“South Beach: The Novel, Brian Antoni’s candy-colored and warmhearted second work of fiction, would make a terrific opera . . . Rich with club scenes and descriptions of off-beat forms…