Lust for Death. In a first novel as stripped down and sun-bleached as the desert itself, Robert Laxalt makes the townspeople’s envenomed reactions to the snakes into a fascinating, ambiguous ...

“The novel the whole publishing world is buzzing about! . . . Exposes the commercial snake pit of the book world where power-hungry men and love-hungry women struggle for survival and fulfillment.

Snakes, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll. The book covers a lot. There’s the background to his Indian citizenship—how his mother, ...

With more than 1,000 photographs, Snakes of Australia illustrates and describes in detail all 240 of the continent’s species and subspecies—from file snakes, pythons, colubrids, and natricids to ...