Purgatory
“Bruen is an Irish treasure, holding his own in a line of literary giants including Joyce, Yeats, Wilde, and Beckett. . . . Purgatory…
keep reading“Bruen is an Irish treasure, holding his own in a line of literary giants including Joyce, Yeats, Wilde, and Beckett. . . . Purgatory…
keep reading“A bravura work, deeply engaged with [Estonia’s] knotted history, sparing but potent in its use of irony, and containing an empathic treatment of all…
keep reading“This comprehensive volume details everything you ever wanted to know about pyramids–and the cultural and technological world from which they arose.” –Boston Herald
keep readingA rare behind-the-scenes tour by producer Art Linson through America’s cruelest, most glamorous industry and the entire moviemaking process.
keep reading“[Robert Coover is] a marvelous magician . . . a maker of miracles, a comic, a sexual tease. . . . The fictions in…
keep reading“As a poet, Sarah Lindsay is fearless. Subjects others would find unpromising or intimidating she forms into poems of eerie, spectral beauty. Antarctic exploration,…
keep reading“As the characters play hide-and-seek with themselves, we’re forced to come out of hiding to shift our own positions and philosophy. Rabe has a way of implicating the reader–of creating a near-claustrophobic bond with his restless characters, writing so convincingly that the subtext becomes almost palpable, accruing darkly, like a…
keep reading‘morton”has written a scholarly but highly readable bio, filled with rich analysis and insight. He says more in his limited space than many others…
keep reading“Efficient and carefully researched . . . Morton’s book fulfills admirably its most important duty, which is to send you back to the music…
keep reading“A gem of an epistolary novel, a tiny thriller . . . Hermann reveals a startling capacity of human beings for self-invention.” –The Baltimore…
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