Editorial reviews

About The Only Child

Good elevator pitch, not so great final result, though I can actually picture a fairly cool movie coming out of this if adapted properly. Netflix, take note.

About Highfire

It’s a fun, rip-roaring read that draws you in and leaves you short of breath from both action and laughter. It’s hard not to be captivated.

About In the Land of Men

If you’re a devotee of David Foster Wallace, you’ll devour this memoir with pleasure. If not, you may enjoy the cultural scavenger hunt and appreciate how much Adrienne Miller makes you stretch.

About Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

On literary and ethnographic expeditions, Hurston packed a pistol along with her notepads. These stories share that same wild spirit – unnerving at times, they are always a thrill.

About Perfect Little Children

Perfect Little Children is one of the most ingenious psychological thrillers I have ever read, and the ending is completely satisfying.

About A Beautiful Crime

The setting is marvelous. Venice isn’t just a scenic background for the action of A Beautiful Crime. Its capricious tides and twisty, deceptive geography seem to mirror the characters’ secrets and intrigues.

About Perfect Little Children

Readers will quickly turn the pages of Perfect Little Children to discover whether those things really are there.

About Not So Pure and Simple

Hilariously necessary.

About Little Gods

This is a beautiful, intensely moving debut.

About The Gimmicks

The result is engrossing, but McCormick doesn't quite get the ratio right. Fewer gimmicks, ultimately, would have served The Gimmicks well.

About Africaville

This is a penetrating, fresh look at the indomitable spirit of black pioneers and their descendants.

About Anyone

An imaginative, time-fragmented thriller about the bitter and potentially deadly consequences of body-snatching.

About Sudden Traveler

Slipping seamlessly between fantasy and reality, it is an ambitious, powerful and, at times, deeply unsettling book.

About Nothing to See Here

It's the sweetness of this novel that will melt you, even when it ventures dangerously close to flaming schmaltz, and despite its somewhat predictable (but still satisfying) ending.

About The Devil’s Due

Loose-limbed, prodigiously inventive, plotted with infernal logic, and riotously implausible from beginning to end.

About God Save the Queens

Iandoli's book is rigorous, insightful, and authoritative — but it's also deadly personal.

About Your House Will Pay

Cha’s storytelling shows how fiction can delicately extract deeper revelations from daily headlines.

About A Lush and Seething Hell

A Lush and Seething Hell in its entirety is liable to equally and cosmically frighten all who open it.