Old friends at the top and bottom of the art world meet in the middle.

Using Middle Eastern poetry to form an eclectic map of the region.

There's an art to romance in these five new novels.

Tight-knit cops and robbers collide on Glasgow's mean streets.

A nineteenth-century Russian comic storyteller shines in a bold new English translation.

Small tales offer medium-sized heroes a grand forum.

In I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp, a punk icon issues a wailing rock memoir.

Is the very notion of "religion" a modern invention?

Is it possible to write the mind of a prophet?

A wry take on "self-help" skewers our globalized economy.

Love stories complete with hard-won happy endings. 

A pair of courageous new memoirs from married music makers.

A prisoner's letters reveal the harrowing and often triumphant life of a fraud.

Violent reckoning strikes a secluded and secretive eighteenth-century village.

When second novels prove to be second nature.