Displaying articles for: January 2010
The Godfather of Kathmandu
As detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep crosses the border into Nepal, the karmic burdens weighing on Bangkok’s most honest cop get even heavier.
Read more...Point Omega
The author of Underworld and Falling Man ensnares readers in another "imaginative act of empathy" and leaves us "suspended in its drama of time."
Read more...Ordinary Thunderstorms
A single mistake sets of a hurricane of consequences, battering a hapless climate scientist in this darkly comic, Dickensian tale.
Read more...I.O.U: Why Everyone Owes Everyone And No One Can Pay
Sleepless
In Charlie Huston’s surreal new thriller, zombie-like Los Angelenos find themselves up all night.
Read more...Remarkable Creatures
In this novel of scientific discovery in Regency England, the human specimens are the most unusual.
Read more...Just Kids
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, and a passionate friendship that rocked the music and art worlds. Read more...
The Unnamed
In the new novel from the author of Then We Came to the End, a dramatic and surprising combat between the flesh and the spirit.
Read more...Doors Open
An art-heist in the heart of Edinburgh takes a wrong turn in this darkly comic caper. Read more...
The Ticking Is the Bomb
In an act of daring juxtaposition, the award-winning poet and memoirist meditates on the arrival of his child in a world shadowed by torture.
Read more...36 Arguments for the Existence of God
Philosophy, religion, science, madness and love are all on the menu in this richly imagined novel of ideas.
Read more...You Are Not a Gadget
A founding eminence of cyberspace inveighs against the digitization of culture. Read more...
The Swan Thieves
The new novel by the author of The Historian turns away from vampires to obsessions of more mortal flesh.
Read more...Ransom
One of Australia’s most celebrated writers turns back to a chilling episode out of Homer: the rage of Achilles, and the terrible fate of Hector.
Read more...Daring Young Men
The Berlin Airlift was supposed to be a stopgap measure until a diplomatic stalemate could be resolved. It became a pivotal victory in the Cold War. Read more...
Noah's Compass
A mysterious assault provokes a reassessment from a man who had resigned himself to a second-rate life. Read more...
Committed
The author of Eat, Pray, Love traces her circuitous route back to the altar. Read more...
Emma Brockes' mother Paula escaped from South Africa with a smuggled pistol and a dark secret. A daughter unravels her family's covert past -- and a suspenseful legal drama -- in this hard-boiled memoir of survival.
Expand your memory, puzzle-solving skills, and sense of metaphysical wonder with philosopher Daniel C. Dennett's tasting menu of user-friendly neuroscience and poetic lingual pursuits.
Thespian-turned-P.I. Jasmine Sharp searches for a missing actress and veteran detective Catherine MacLeod tries to solve the case of a murdered one. Their paths intertwine amid the Scottish theater community with uproarious and gory results.
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