Noir novel of an actor navigating Paris rekindles the humor and intellect of the genre. This curiously dry, reasonably entertaining novel is clearly an attempt to replicate or comment on noir-ish hardboiled fiction. It is narrated by an... Read More

Historical China odyssey may be a bit dramatic, but the author puts you in an exciting, believable time and place. In Virginia Pye’s "River of Dust", a tale of odyssey and human relationships in post-Boxer Rebellion China, the author... Read More

Essays try to uncover the hidden, evolutionary nature of human behavior. In Evolved: Chronicles of a Pleistocene Mind, author and amateur naturalist Maximilian Werner creates a memoir from a series of essays about his relationship with... Read More

First-time author writes with aplomb, possesses a keen perception of how love undoes a human heart. “I get it. Broken hearts mend and in six months I’ll see that we were never right for each other anyway. But this middle distance... Read More