The Beholder’s Eye

“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…

The Helmet of Horror

“Sharp, funny and, what’s the word, numinous.” —Hugo Barnacle, Sunday Times (London)…

The Player, The Rapture, The New Age

The Player: “A masterpiece! One of the smartest, funniest, most penetrating movies about moviemaking ever made.” –Steven Schiff, Vanity Fair…

Story of My Life

“[McInerney’s] talent for capturing the nuances and idiosyncrasies of our culture is even more powerfully evident in The Story of My Life . . . Underneath Alison’s hip, partygirl exterior…

The Player

“One of the most wounding and satirical of all Hollywood expos’s: dark and mordant . . . savage. . . . A portrait of life among the high-rollers and deal…

Leopoldstadt

Finally making its Broadway debut in a limited engagement run, Tom Stoppard’s humane and heartbreaking Olivier Award-winning play of love, family, and endurance

Young Skins

From a major new talent in international fiction, whom Colm Tóibín has hailed as “exciting and stylistically adventurous,” comes a propulsive, urgent portrait of dislocated Irish youth….

Where Three Roads Meet

“[A] glowing sliver of a novel . . . Utterly surprising . . . Where Three Roads Meet is a . . . profoundly moving [novel] that compresses the horror…

To the Land of the Cattails

Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes

“While best known as a writer of thrillers, Highsmith is concerned with crafting stories to evoke the human comedy. Her wry portrayals of human folly sometimes lack sympathy, but Highsmith…