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Pirandello’s Henry IV

‘stoppard in his new pared-down, updated, and racily colloquial adaptation, finds both the intellectual rigor and the dramatic momentum and presents us with a…

The Pistoleer

“A genuine tour de force . . . an ingenious reconstruction of the life and times of the West’s most feared gunman, John Wesley…

A Place of Healing for the Soul

“France’s conversion is deeply touching. His sense of unworthiness, of nagging doubt, of willingness to plunge ahead regardless, gives to the traditional conversion tale…

A Place to Stand

“The finest memoir I’ve read in I don’t know how long. It reminded me of the rawness of George Orwell combined with the human…

Plato’s Republic

“Plato’s Republic . . . which Blackburn rightly suggests is the first book to shake the world, is loaded with perennial questions that every…

The Player

“One of the most wounding and satirical of all Hollywood expos’s: dark and mordant . . . savage. . . . A portrait of…

Playing

“Playing is an audacious erotic debut novel that chills, thrills, shocks and enthralls. Through the story of a young American woman’s love for a…

Playing Through the Whistle

From a Sports Illustrated senior writer, a moving epic of football and industrial America, telling the story of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, its now-shuttered steel mill,…

A Personal Matter

“In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both.” –Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor