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Acclaimed crime fiction writer Jim Nisbet sets forth a noir gem that lays bare the foibles of modern-day America with tremendous force.Banerjhee Rolf, a bright, levelheaded Indian American scientist, is content to spend his days with his wife, tending...

Em and the Big Hoom

Em and the Big Hoom

First published by a small press in India, Jerry Pinto's devastatingly original debut novel has already taken the literary world by storm. Suffused with compassion, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Em and the Big Hoom is a modern masterpiece, and its...

Ghachar Ghochar

Ghachar Ghochar

A young man’s close-knit family is nearly destitute when his uncle founds a successful spice company, changing their fortunes overnight. As they move from a cramped, ant-infested shack to a larger house on the other side of Bangalore, and try to...

In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity.The son of a Brahmin...

When Anthony Shadid—one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya as the region erupted—was freed, he went home, not to Boston, Beirut, or Oklahoma, where he was raised by his Lebanese American family, but to an ancient estate built by his...

An insightful look at how Amazon really works and how its founder and CEO makes it happenAmazon’s business model is deceptively simple: make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won’t think twice. It can almost be summed up by the...

In the Pittsburgh Marathon, 18,000 people from all over the world will participate. Some 9,500 will run a half marathon, 4,000 will run in relays, while 4,500 participants will attempt the full 26.2 miles. Over two hundred will quit before it's over....

The Answer to the Riddle Is Me

The Answer to the Riddle Is Me

Imagine waking up in a train station in India with no idea who you are or how you got there. This is what happened to David MacLean.In 2002, at age twenty-eight, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean. No money. No...