Fiction

 There is much richness and beauty contained in this very short book. Shibli has an exquisite grasp of language that allows her to say a vast amount without writing much at all.

In the wee hours of a London morning, a wealthy, elderly man, Frank Schoeller, is brutally attacked in his home.

An arrogant talking head has just humiliated his well-meaning director, Henry, in front of his crew.

“. . . I wonder if being too satisfied with your life and becoming numb to it aren’t somehow intertwined. Like there isn’t something just as dangerous about playing it safe.”

 She did it!  She really did it!  Ms.

“Occasionally the literary world is treated to a book that seems to have been written with divine inspiration.

Contrary to expectations, Tolstoy’s well-known line from Anna Karenina, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” does not apply to Rachel Cusk’s nove

Taroko Gorge is Jacob’s debut novel. The setting is Taiwan’s National Park and the story is littered with a cast of international characters.

 Viking, December 2009 Science fiction abhors a Utopia the way nature abhors a vacuum. When the two meet, something has to be done to undo one of them.

Bob Dylan’s album John Wesley Harding was released in 1967. Susan Streeter Carpenter’s debut novel, Riders on the Storm, is set in Cleveland in 1968.

Every once in a while, a book comes along that is so creatively out-of-the box that the reader isn’t quite sure what he holds in his hands.

Molly Harper has returned with her third installment in the Nice Girls series with Nice Girls Don’t Live Forever.