From the author of Bel Canto, a mysterious pharmacological quest deep in the Amazon.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

A stylistically clever literary romp through the mind of a dying man.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

As in her novels, these short stories by a master chronicler examine the moral complexities of women’s lives through several decades.

• Fiction,
• Literary,
• Short Stories,

Modern relationships in San Francisco, under the spell of Queen Titania from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

• Fiction,
• Literary,

Joy-riding on back roads in a modern retelling of a familiar story from the Gospels.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

This elegiac tribute blurs the line between memoir and fiction.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

Depicting a world where random violence and uneasy compromise coexist on the boundary of civilization and wilderness.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

Tales of one town’s enduring obsession with the seafaring life.

• Fiction,
• Literary,