Literary
The Monsters of Templeton
Editors' choice
Willie (Wilhelmina) Upton, a doctoral student in archaeology who has gotten a bit too involved with a married professor…
A Perfect Waiter
Erneste is a perfect waiter: now, in 1966 at the Restaurant am Berg; in 1934, at the Grand Hotel…
Bleeding Heart Square
Legend has it that the Devil once danced in Bleeding Heart Square and, even in 1934, it is an…
Pavel and I
Set in Berlin during the deadly cold Christmas season of 1946, this is a story of intrigue and murder,…
The Seventh Well
Editors' choice
The Seventh Well was originally published in East Germany in 1971, but not until its reissue in 2006 did…
The Voyage of the Short Serpent
In an unspecified year, a Church cardinal sends a letter to a bishop with orders for a special mission. The…
Gentlemen of the Road
Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Chabon has “gone in search of a little adventure” in this impressive genre-twisting tale set along the…
Lavinia
Editors' choice
I’ve always wished I could write Ms. Le Guin’s lucid prose. In so few words she can create a world…
The End of East
Lee’s book, first published in Canada by Knopf as a “New Faces of Fiction” novel, is her first novel, full…
The White King
Set in an East European communist totalitarian country in the 1970-1980s, this novel is narrated by an 11-year-old boy…
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