Time Out Chicago , Top 10 Book of 2005 Winner of the 2006 PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction   Training horses is dangerous—a head-to-head confrontation with 1,000 pounds of muscle and little sense takes courage, but more i...

An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, m...

Percival Everett’s blistering satire about race and writing, available again in paperback Thelonious "Monk" Ellison’s writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings al...

A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman’s murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints l...

I am guilty not because of my actions, to which I freely admit, but for my accession, admission, confession that I executed these actions with not only deliberation and premeditation but with zeal and paroxysm and purpose . . . The true ...