Big Girls Don’t Cry

“Weldon’s clever comparisons of yesterday’s mores to today’s spice up this bubbling feminist brew, offering a study of the costs and consequences of the idealistic life that is sharp, funny,…

Baked

“A laugh-out-loud, thrill-a-minute, tour de force of bad behavior, weirdness, and contemporary illegal commerce. With Baked, Mark Haskell Smith may just have written his masterpiece.” —Jerry Stahl…

Baise-Moi (Rape Me)

“A small revolution.” –Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly…

The Book of J

“A great book . . . Rosenberg has produced a superb piece of translation . . . Bloom wrestles with the Angel of Literature, and walks away with the Blessing.”…

Budapest 1900

“John Lukacs is in many ways an old-fashioned chronicler, an “impressionistic historian” as he himself says at one point, evoking with considerable artistry the vibrant colors, pungent smells and melancholy…

The Bird King

A fantastical journey set at the height of the Spanish Inquisition from the award-winning author of Alif the Unseen and writer of the Ms. Marvel series, G. Willow Wilson’s The…

Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams

“The show is Terrence McNally at his most impudently hilarious and shrewdly satirical. See it an weep for joy.” –John Simon, Bloomberg News…

Conversations with Pinter

Bluff

From a writer who “dazzles with prose strength and style” (Michael Koryta), Bluff takes us deep inside the fraught and fascinating world of a modern magician who becomes obsessed with…

Anatomy of a Song

Based on the popular Wall Street Journal column Anatomy of a Song, the story behind the rock, R&B, and pop hits that have influenced music history over the last fifty…