Perhaps real-life spies, whose aliases and fictional facades camouflage their inner lives, are themselves the unconscious novelists of our time, distilling from their actions a purer purpose, a more humane plot. Harry Gold, in real life,... Read More

Compo’s prolific, yet easily accessible writing style offers an exciting, swashbuckling epic reminiscent of the timeless tales of Robin Hood. Her story is peopled with good-guy pirates, bad-guy land barons, a society of women... Read More

When a young man is given everything at once-a good family, good luck, happiness and good standing among his peers-there often can only be room for misfortune to join the “everything” that man has been given. Oscar Moreira is a... Read More

In actual fact she had never met the man meant only for her. If he came along, she didn’t see him because Hawley Rains had flashed across her life like Halley’s Comet and left the sky dark for fifty-one years. ‘Now that,’ she... Read More

What is left in the world for people who are still alive yet whose lives have been destroyed? All is inverted. Pain is now painless. Poverty is ambiguous riches. The hurtful past is now the ambivalent present. Dailey writes with the... Read More

If Adam could get Eve to stop talking for just one minute, he could appreciate her beauty and fall in love with her. So opens this curious set of intertwined diaries of Earth’s first two human inhabitants as “translated” with... Read More

“Just as the hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so the routine of everyday life can keep us from seeing the vast radiance of and the secret wonders that fill the world.” Eighteenth century, Hasidic. Manhattan... Read More

The Millers of these twenty tales belong to Jesse Miller, fiftyish, Jewish, husband, adulterer, academic, writer, son and lover, a sardonic, voluble witness to his own life. Told in brief, interconnected stories, the novel traces... Read More