Fiction & Literature

For ten years, the partially completed sailboat Jack Merkel started building with his wife and son sits gathering dust, until his lingering sorrow drives him to finish it alone. Enter...

The beautiful coquettish daughter of the Cuban insurrection from Spain, 1890s, is engaged to two men, one an officer in the Cuban army, while courted by many others. Her father,...

A Publishers Weekly Bestseller   Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2023   When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two...

  "A knockout collection. ... Sharp-edged satire deceptively wrapped like a box of Neuhaus chocolates, Table for Two is a winner." --The New York TimesFrom the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman...

When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as...