Raymond Chandler
“A skillful treatment . . . of the frequently muddled life of the writer who elevated crime fiction to widely acknowledged eminence.” –The New…
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The Raymond Chandler Papers
“Chandler, the premiere practictioner of the American hard-boiled detective novel, elevated the wisecrack into a rhetorical figure somewhere between sarcasm and simile. For the…
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“Stoppard is the master comedian of ideas in the English language.”—Newsweek
keep readingA Really Big Lunch
A collection of essays from “the Henry Miller of food writing” (Wall Street Journal)—beloved New York Times bestselling writer Jim Harrison.
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“[The Rebels’ Hour] achieves intense intimacy with a few characters to represent a much more immense historical experience. . . . It is as…
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“[Leon] offers a fresh, exhilarating take on that ambiguous city, with its labyrinthine alleyways and politics, its glamour, its grottiness. . . . An…
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“A lean, nasty, fun little page-turner . . . In a thriller, an implausible scene of a cartoonish character can be annoying—but dullness is…
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“Timely and provocative. . . . Laurence’s history of the Qur’an [is] highly instructive. . . . The history of the book is a map of the world we live…
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“In crisp, elegant prose, Drape captures his subjects and their sport, taking readers behind the scenes and telling the stories that make the sport…
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From “one of the most brilliant minds and speakers of our generation” (The Independent) comes an extraordinary tale, inspired by the myth of Ragnarök.
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