In this fantastically original debut collection, Daniel Orozco leads the reader through the secret lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictator’s occasional piss on the U.S. embassy. His stories are formally inventive: a love affair blooms between two officers in the impartially worded pages of a police blotter and a new employee’s first-day office tour includes descriptions of other workers’ most private thoughts and actions. Each story in the collection has a gut-punch impact, softened only by lyricism and black humor. They open cracks in the reassurance of daily routine and expose the alienation, casual cruelty, madness, and unknown that simmers beneath the surface of the world. Orozco is a major new talent and an important addition to the landscape of American fiction.

In the early 1960s, uncertainty and menace gripped New York, crystallizing in a poisonous divide between a deeply corrupt, cynical, and racist police force, and an African American community buffeted by economic distress, brutality, and narcotics. On August 28, 1963 – the day Martin Luther King Jr. declared "I have a dream" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial – two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. Dubbed the Career Girls Murders case, the crime sent ripples of fear throughout the city. It also marked the start of a ten-year saga of fear, racial violence, and turmoil. The Savage City emerges as an epic narrative of injustice and defiance, revealing for the first time the gripping story of how a great city, marred by fear and hatred, struggled for its soul in a time of sweeping social, political, and economic change.

In this sequel to Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. At its heart, this is the story of Fuller's mother, Nicola. Born on the Scottish Isle of Skye and raised in Kenya, Nicola holds dear the kinds of values most likely to get you hurt or killed in Africa: loyalty to blood, passion for land, and a holy belief in the restorative power of all animals. Fuller interviewed her mother at length and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is as funny, terrifying, exotic, and unselfconscious as Nicola herself. A story of survival and madness, love and war, loyalty and forgiveness, this is an intimate exploration of the author's family. In local custom, the Tree of Forgetfulness is where villagers meet to resolve disputes and it is here that the Fullers at last find an African kind of peace. Following the ghosts and dreams of memory, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is Alexandra Fuller at her very best.

Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but otherwise in the pink of health. The nonstop sex and exercise he’s getting probably contribute to that, as does the unusual amount of flesh and blood in his diet. Jake, of course, is a werewolf, and with the death of his colleague he has become the only one of his kind. This depresses Jake to the point of contemplating suicide. Yet there are powerful forces who, for very different reasons, want – and have the power – to keep Jake alive. This is one of the most original, audacious, and terrifying novels in years, a powerful new version of the werewolf legend. It is mesmerizing and undeniably sexy, with moments of violence so elegantly wrought they dazzle rather than repel. But its most remarkable achievement is the way it evokes sympathy for a man who can only be described as a monster - and in doing so, reminds us what it means to be human.

The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.