Taking ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ as her springboard, the author mixes tales of merchants, treasure and genies with impassioned essays on literary and social issues
Astringent, unsparing and generous by turns, the Canadian writer’s memoir is as compulsively readable as her best fiction
The singer-songwriter wisely builds her memoir around her creative 1970s in New York — but other periods get weighed down in…
The coming-of-age story of Pamela Colman Smith is brought to life in a meticulously researched historical novel spanning Jamaica,…
Cosy, sparkly and fragrant treats for the home and wardrobe
From a 22-year-old’s striking debut to fictional forays by acclaimed poets, first novels that conjure China, Spain, Italy,…
A nameless narrator finds connections with the American pioneer of modernism in a confounding, compelling fiction-biography hybrid
