The world of high-end jewelry salesmen rendered in diamond-hard prose. Read more...

Short tales that approach, in a sidelong fashion, the self-accounting of memoir. Read more...

The passage of a literary prodigy. Read more...

A mail-order bride brings a secret history to a snowstruck prairie town, only to find her new husband haunted by his own past. Read more...

A new survey of the history of women writing in America produces a bounty of well-known works and little-known gems. Read more...

The champion of the "New Weird" delivers a haunting police procedural. Read more...

How to unleash your inner Donald. Read more...

Flavored by pulp fiction and sizzling with satire, a tale of mystery on a galactic scale. Read more...

A 21st-century update of Mary McCarthy's classic novel The Group. Read more...

Modern scholarship uncovers the surprisingly long-lived twilight of Roman civilization. Read more...

An atrocity at the heart of Tasmania's history yields a complex linkage of characters real and imagined. Read more...

The sometimes surprising history of the global battle over reproductive rights. Read more...

A novel of Hollywood in the silent era, from the author of Carter Beats the Devil Read more...

How the Islamic world kept alive the flame of classical science. Read more...

The bedroom banter of a master of dialogue always threatens to steal the show. Read more...

On the road in Europe, looking for love, or at least a good conversation. Read more...

A novelist confronts the death of his parents -- who happen to have been legends in their own time. Read more...

A Canadian short story writer with a Chekhovian flair. Read more...

A novelist returns to his hometown and sends his heroine across the Atlantic. Read more...

Spoke the (language) maven, "Nevermore." Read more...

Memoir and fiction carry on an extended flirtation in Nothomb?s tale of cross-cultural love. Read more...

A beachfront coming-of-age in the '80s, from the author of The Intuitionist. Read more...