Morten Storm was an unlikely jihadi. A six-foot-one red-haired Dane, Storm spent his teens in
and out of trouble. A book about the Prophet Mohammed prompted his conversion to Islam, and Storm sought purpose in a community of believers. He ...
Originally published by McSweeney’s in hardcover and met with wide acclaim, Arkansas is a darkly
comic debut novel written by John Brandon about a pair of drug runners, Kyle and Swin, set in the rural southeast. Drawing comparisons to a ...
Book of Clouds is a haunting, masterfully wrought debut novel about a young woman adrift
in Berlin, where a string of fateful encounters leads to romance, violence, and revelation. Having escaped her overbearing family a continent away, Tatiana settles in ...
A Beat-era novel of heroin addiction in 1950s New York City that was called “a
treasure” by Ken Kesey. This is the journal of Joe Necchi, a junkie living on a barge that plies the rivers and bays of ...
Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che
Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee ...
The searing novel on which the internationally acclaimed hit film was based, City of God
is a gritty, gorgeous tour de force from one of Brazil’s most notorious slums. Cidade de Deus: a place where the streets are awash with ...
Damned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett,
mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett's chosen biographer and a leading authority on Beckett, vividly recreates Beckett's life from his ...
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author “shares his insights into—and passion for—the creation and experience of fiction
with total openness” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Robert Olen Butler, author of Perfume River, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and A Small ...
