Ogden Walker—biracial, former Marine, sheriff’s deputy, main character in Percival Everett’s latest novel, "Assumption": a man who prefers fly fishing to firearms and violence. Or so we assume. Everett’s prose is stark, so plain... Read More

An under-stimulated housewife and her philandering husband breed mayhem in this crime novel by best-selling Argentinean author Claudia Pineiro. Pineiro weaves a tale of intrigue and plot twists centering on Inés, a smart but bored... Read More

At the heart of David Szalay’s exquisite yet maddening novel "Spring" is a love story. What’s exquisite is the writing. What’s maddening is its inconclusiveness. The author was listed in 2010 as one of the twenty best British... Read More

Located on the African continent and bordered by Burundi, Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Tanzania, Rwanda has a centuries-long history of internal conflict. Two of the three main social groupings, Hutus and Tutsis, have swapped control... Read More

A beloved queen overthrown by outside forces and a novel unfinished at the time of the author’s death—both evoke our sympathy and sense of injustice. The story opens at a party in Honolulu Harbor in 1868, when the narrator, Julius,... Read More

“I was huge! I was horny! I was … careful. When I looked at Séan, and he at me, it was always eye to eye.” This is the compelling and candid voice of Gina Moynihan, the snarky and sensual thirty-four-year-old narrator of Anne... Read More

It is said that there are no new stories, only new ways of telling the same ones: jealousy, revenge, ambition, and of course, love—imperfect love, unrequited love, and naturally, inconvenient love that crosses taboo boundaries. This... Read More

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a time of prosperous trade with the Orient, an exciting backdrop for Thomas Steinbeck’s new novel. Filled with rich, meticulous detail, "The Silver Lotus" portrays two culturally... Read More