News Room

Old Times

Like Pinter’s earlier plays, Old Times deals with bare essentials. There are only three characters—a man named Deeley, his wife, Kate, and Anna, a…

The Old Turk’s Load

“Gibson’s elliptical, ever-evolving plot seems a marriage of Raymond Chandler complexity and Donald E. Westlake comic haplessness, but he imbues his characters with a…

Old World, New World

“This stunning and important work is destined to become the benchmark study of this topic for many years to come.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)…

Olga

“[Olga’s] hunger for adventure, her sheer force of character, her passion and courage, called her to a strange and tragic destiny. . . ….

On a Wave

“More than an account of a sport mastered. It’s a sharp, self-conscious portrait of the artist as a young grommet.” –The New Yorker

Numbers

O Solo Homo

“Naked passion, fiery intellect and dissatisfaction with the status quo mark all good performance art. This collection embodies those elements at their best. Each…

O, What a Luxury

Garrison Keillor’s first collection of his very own poems, a delightful book for all his devoted fans.

Ocean

“There is friendship in Neil Azevedo’s vision. A warm tone flow. Brutal history is confronted with thoughts edged and graceful. And his dad poems…

October, Eight O’Clock

“The reader becomes absorbed at once. The background is dreamlike but terribly familiar. . . . Manea’s prose treads the edge of the poetry…