“What kind of man goes to one of the biggest rock concerts of the sixties, manages to drown in a nearby irrigation canal an hour into the show, and is never identified?” That’s what Caleb Levy attempts to discover in 1999, when his... Read More

When Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was first released in 1960, audiences were treated to many on-screen firsts: a flushing toilet, an image of unmarried lovers sharing a bed, a depiction of murder in a shower, and Janet Leigh as the first... Read More

In 1970, Yaupon Island is down to three inhabitants: Maggie, Whaley, and Woodrow, who make up half of Michael Parker’s novel, The Watery Part of the World. The other half begins in 1813, when pirates capture and spare Theodosia Burr... Read More

A cursing dog, a rosebush that channels the dead, an eight-year-old rabies victim and a man who looks strangely like a capybara all collide—together with a multitude of baked goods—in Jim Krusoe’s smart and witty tale of revenge,... Read More

The villagers call him the Story Man; the whites know him as the Barefoot Librarian. He walks from one village to the next, carrying loads of books and conducting performances based on the stories he reads. Sometimes he imagines he is... Read More

Peter Stamm’s Seven Years is a dynamic and taut novel that examines the conflicted heart and the perception of what love is within the confines of marriage. Told from the point of view of Alex, a young, attractive architect, this story... Read More

“Time was a single moment endlessly circling on itself…” In a sweeping story of several generations, Galore reveals the lives of the Irish and West Country English in rugged Newfoundland. From the time of Napoleon through the early... Read More

In January 1890, two men return to Port Bonita, Washington, after a trek through the never-explored Olympic Peninsula. “The valley was a bowl of glorious white, and beyond the foothills the rugged snowcapped peaks of the divide loomed... Read More