“Vlad” is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In this sly sequel, Vlad really is undead: dispossessed after centuries of mayhem by Eastern E
In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of Eden—but there are snakes in th
Carlos Fuentes starts up a conversation about revolution on the streets of a city without a name with his balcony neighbor, Friedrich Nietzsche. The German philosopher, even though he’s been dead sinc
