A Kestrel for a Knave
by Barry Hines
This little novel has always been hard to find in the U.S., but it's been a staple of school reading lists in England ever since it came out in 1968—and for good reason, as it's the sort of story, of... (Tom)
Papilio
by Ben Clanton, Corey R. Tabor, and Andy Chou Musser
If you stopped by the store earlier this spring, you may have noticed our amazing front window celebrating Papilio, a new picture book by the three-author team of Ben Clanton (Narwhal and Jelly series... (Tom)
Playworld
by Adam Ross
The biographical fallacy—the assumption that fiction comes directly from the author's own life—is full of dangers, but nevertheless I was not at all surprised to learn that Adam Ross was a child actor... (Tom)
The Frog in the Throat
by Markus Werner, translated by Michael Hofmann
We pay attention to Michael Hofmann's translations here, not only for his skill in turning German into English (e.g., Joseph Roth's The Radetzky March and Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos) but for his taste i... (Tom)