"From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women's Prize, comes a tense and thought-provoking exploration of an intellectual affair and its reverberations across the lives of two couples. Tessa is a successful white woman writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person, with Charlie, a ruggedly handsome philosopher and scholar based in Los Angeles. Sparks fly as they exchange...

On an ill-fated art expedition to the southern Shan State in Burma, eleven Americans find themselves deep in the Burma jungle, where they encounter a tribe waiting the return of the leader and the mystical book of wisdom that will protect them from the ravages and destruction of the Myanmar military regime.

After losing her child in a tsunami a woman is convinced that she sees him in a video about orphans in Burma, and she and her husband mount a search but become lost in the jungle and discover a place with supernatural powers.

"The search for a missing girl sends Inspector Lu Fei undercover into the wild corners of Myanmar, and the compound of the deadly and mysterious woman warlord responsible for the illegal trafficking of exotic animals and possibly more, in the next book from Brian Klingborg, Wild Prey. Police Inspector Lu Fei has an unfortunate talent for getting himself into hot water with powerful and well-connected people. Which is why he's been assigned to a backwater...

Presents an anthology of the best literary essays published in the past year, selected from American periodicals.