The Old Filth Trilogy
A century-spanning epic of bittersweet marriages and friendships concludes.
Katherine A. Powers
Katherine A. Powers received the 2013 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. She is the editor of Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942–1963. Her email address is kapow3@gmail.com.
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
Revealing the candid passions and ambitions of the austere O Pioneers! author.
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
A critic looks back at her favorite read of the year.
Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany
The True Grit author’s short work reveals the range of an inimitable and hilarious American voice.
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
Playing games with the meaning of life — and the inevitability of its final turn.
Bring Up the Bodies
In the sequel to her novel Wolf Hall, a novelist continues her exploration of the enigmatic man at the heart…
The Orphan Master’s Son
The story of a professional kidnapper’s life takes on a surreal edge in the appropriately nightmarish world of North Korea.
The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt’s blackly comic western outdraws the competition.
In the Garden of Beasts
An American family gets pulled into the maelstrom of Nazi terror.
Please Look After Mom
When a Korean matriarchgoes missing her family is turned upside down.
Started Early, Took My Dog
The beloved privatedetective Jackson Brodie returns, with a four-legged assistant.
The Paris Wife
A novel of Ernest Hemingway’swife Hadley among the exiles in 1920s Paris.
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was the richest and most successful writer of his time, but his life—as this superlative biography reveals—was…
Operation Mincemeat
The author of Agent Zigzag reveals the true story of Britain’s most ingenious WWII espionage ploy.
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
The astounding career of the “Million Dollar String Bean.”
The Stories and Essays of Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine A. Powers on the new Library of America edition of the collected stories and essays.
The Silver Swan
The unshakably inquisitive pathologist Quirke returns, in the latest from novelist John Banville’s alter ego.