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South Beach

by Brian Antoni

“South Beach: The Novel, Brian Antoni’s candy-colored and warmhearted second work of fiction, would make a terrific opera . . . Rich with club scenes and descriptions of off-beat forms…

Guests of the Ayatollah

by Mark Bowden

“Heart-stopping, and heart-breaking.” —James Traub, New York Times Book Review…

The New Great Game

by Lutz Kleveman

“A compact style and a sharp eye for detail . . . help the reader digest a huge and complex subject. . . . [Kleveman] is clearly an intelligent observer…

Henry Miller

Henry Miller was born in New York City on December 26, 1891. Miller briefly attended City College of New York, but abandoned his university studies after only two months. In…

Bananas

by Peter Chapman

“United Fruit essentially invented not only ‘the concept and reality of the banana republic,’ but also, as Chapman shows, the concept and reality of the modern banana. [A] witty, energetic…

Barry Gifford

…major motion picture, City of Ghosts, from MGM/United Artists, co-written by Barry Gifford and Matt Dillon (who also directed); starring Matt Dillon, Gerard Depardieu, James Caan, Stellan Skarsgaard and Natasha…

Grove at Home: October 18—24

…Best Sellers list, and praised as “dazzling” by the Wall Street Journal and “miraculously light and substantive at the same time” by the San Francisco Chronicle. Today, with wild boars…

Grove at Home: October 11—17

…reduction specialists, and much of the public wringing their hands in recent years. In the past few days alone, the drug has made major headlines in San Francisco, eastern Pennsylvania,…

Wonderland

by Michael Bamberger

…appears to suggest, students who can construct such a virtual world for themselves are indeed capable of reshaping their own lives to match their dreams.” –Rachel Elson, San Francisco Chronicle…

Woodcuts of Women

by Dagoberto Gilb

‘dagoberto Gilb is an important voice in American fiction. These stories of working class, low-rent lives illuminated by the small pleasures of sex and drink and food and sleep and…