The fractured storytelling of "Comet Fox" revolves around a complicated woman. The vignettes that make up Peter Quinones’s experimental novel "Comet Fox" focus on the escapades of a bisexual economist. With her contentious divorce... Read More

As an examination of twentieth-century history, this book does an excellent job of rewriting accepted myths. A nonobjective paean to liberalism, L. K. Samuels’s political history text "Killing History" is also a much-needed corrective... Read More

This fast science fiction novel works toward love and peace as scientists battle to save humanity. In David Levin’s optimistic science fiction novel "Phase Rider", humanity’s survival is threatened. A wave of destructive energy is... Read More

"The Third Internecion" concludes an epic fantasy trilogy with ruminations on the human condition. In Erik A. Otto’s trilogy-concluding, introspective fantasy "The Third Internecion", a land divided comes together to stop the end of... Read More

Teetering somewhere between uncanny and debaucherous, Audrée Wilhelmy’s eerie novel "The Body of the Beasts" focuses on a lighthouse-keeping family subsisting at the edge of civilization. In the Borya family, desire is voyeuristic,... Read More

Medieval Europe isn’t recognized for being particularly adventurous in spiritual matters. Dank monasteries, cavernous cathedrals, and plague pandemics seemed to stoicize the mind—though not in the case of Johannes Eckhart, a... Read More

Ablaze in infamy and otherworldly as any heavenly planet, Texas is mythology come alive. This singular place is what happens when fiercely independent, prone-to-violence people are assimilated into a fledgling nation whose capital is so... Read More

With the confidence that Mexico’s respect for people of retirement age would ferry him safely through the dangers hinted at by the state department, Paul Theroux set out to drive across Mexico, a trip recorded in "On the Plain of... Read More