In this frank and fearless novel, acclaimed writer Hanan al-Shaykh follows the tumultuous lives and sometimes shocking choices of women successful in their careers but unlucky in love. On a...

Single mother Maisey Addington has always fallen short of her own mother’s expectations—never married, a bit adrift, wasting her high IQ on dead-end jobs. The only thing Maisey’s sure she’s gotten...

It is the fall of 1951 and the Korean War is in full swing. Nicholai Hel has just spent the last three years of her short life in solitary confinement by the Americans. Hel is a master of hoda...

J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the...

The Bridges of Constantine is a poignant fresco of Algeria over the last 50 years, a searing love story, and a hymn to a lost city. Khaled, a former revolutionary in the Algerian war of liberation,...

Transgressive fiction authors write stories some are afraid to tell. Stories with taboo subjects, unique voices, shocking images nothing safe or dry. Burnt Tongues is a collection of...

A psychological study of the first order with a subtly Freudian flavor, The Mirage is the autobiographical account of Kamil Ru’ba, a tortured soul who finds himself struggling unduly to cope with...

A year ago, my dream had seemed impossible. But I,Merri Walters, had used my lip-reading skill to bringdown criminals and had scored a job with MetroPolice. Earning my detective's badge took guts...

Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his...

A young woman tumbles into a nightmare of decadent desire and corrupted innocence in a superb novella of suspense from National Book Award–winner Joyce Carol Oates. Art and arson, the poetry of D....

In Geneva, American lawyer Joel Converse meets a man he hasn’t seen in twenty years, a covert operative who dies violently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse a staggering legacy of...

As Frances Lennox and her two sons try to make the best of their situation, which requires that they live with her conservative mother-in-law, her ex-husband Comrade Johnny dumps his second wife's...