Thomas Schlesser must have known from the start that he needed a special framework for this novel. Stripped of its premise, Mona’s Eyes is an art history lesson, and a very good one.

Mona, a ten-year-old French girl, suffers a temporary vision loss that may recur at any time. Her grandfather, Henry Vuillemin, resolves to take her on weekly museum expeditions so that if she does go blind, she will have lasting memories of great artworks.

If you know as little about art as I do, you’ll find the...

Are some people too smart for their own good? Or are they just good at rationalizing? Author Don DeLillo introduces a community of philosophical buffoons in his hilarious satire, White Noise.

Jack Gladney is chairman of the Department of Hitler Studies at his college. His colleagues are pseudointellectuals with crackpot theories. His friend Murray says that people can be divided into two categories: killers and “diers”. Killers, he explains, stow up credit like bank interest because their...

Unless you’re well-versed in the investment business, The Lies We Trade may read like a foreign language. Kristine Delano brings twenty years of Wall Street experience to bear with her debut novel.

Meredith Hansel, an investment portfolio manager for Garman Straub, is on the cusp of a career triumph when an apparent betrayal by one of her team members casts doubts upon Meredith’s integrity. Whiffs of a scandal emerge so quickly that she doesn’t know whether she’s about to be promoted or...