Editorial reviews

About In Our Mad and Furious City

His novel is weirdly somnolent given how portentously it primes us for danger, for the burning of mosques and blood in the streets.

About Ghost Trees

In Ghost Trees Gilbert rails gently against global warming and globalisation, and laments the decline of natural diversity and the loss of community that, he says, comes with it.

About The Little Snake

In “The Little Snake,” the swift emotional slippages click along, one after another, sentence after sentence, like an intricate concatenation of rainbow-bright dominoes.

About Invisible

Truthful narratives demand complexity. Stephen L. Carter has revived his grandmother’s voice when we most need it, and with utmost urgency.

About We Begin in Gladness

By overlooking questions of social justice and the politics of language, Teicher offers us a portrait of these poets that, however well rendered, is nevertheless incomplete.

About A Rebel in Gaza

The world would be poorer without Ghoul’s voice, without her warmth, her fury and her laughter.

About Future Politics

It is mind-boggling enough just to contemplate the vastness of the challenge. To have written it all down so lucidly, engagingly and succinctly is a formidable achievement.

About Bringing Down the Colonel

her book is a lucid guide to a story that became far more consequential than the titillation supplied by its salacious bits.

About The Circuit

His prose becomes lyrical as he transmits the shot-by-shot drama of the match. It’s what makes “The Circuit” such a joy to read: a poet’s love song to the game of tennis.

About Evening in Paradise

Evening in Paradise proves that Berlin's generous, beautiful spirit will endure in the literary world for decades to come.

About Slip of a Fish

The work is original, ambitious and challenging, submerging the reader in the strangeness of an anomalous mind, an aqueous medium where language is refracted into mazes of shifting meanings.

About Evening in Paradise

What does calm Berlin’s mind is nature, which creates a sustained pause in her work. Whenever her women feel despair, they find comfort in poplars, bougainvillea, hibiscus and gardenias. They plant seeds, but then they’re on the move again and rarely get to see them flourish.

About City of Broken Magic

Overlong and rough around the edges but still promising.

About Hardly Children

A challenging and unsettling collection that heralds a promising talent.

About Deadly Camargue

The leisurely journey to the solution of Rademacher’s second Provence whodunit is adorned with droll characterizations, pungent dialogue, and zingy chapter titles.

About The Hazards of Good Fortune

Overall, a smart, sharp-eyed, entertaining, engrossing story.

About The Penalty Area

The Penalty Area is charming, and it’s easy to imagine it being a film. If you need a bookish boost, you can’t go wrong with this story.

About Children of God

Readers who approach Children of God from a purely religious standpoint might struggle, but those — from any or no spiritual background — eager to be challenged will find a wonderful story waiting for them in this book.

About The End of the End of the Earth

It’s the work of a writer at the top of his game – limber and lovely, delivering deep insights with delicacy and grace – and it poignantly makes the only case for climate action that has any chance of succeeding: that there is so much worth living for.

About The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

It’s the kind of historical fiction that launches a thousand Ancestry.com searches and sends readers to their favorite search engine mid-paragraph to find out who is and isn’t an actual historical figure. It’s also something of a feminist tome set in an era before its time, belying its title in a good way.