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The Norman Conquests

“To write one brilliant comedy is a feat. To write three in a row, all about the same people, is a tour de force…

“Night People is the work of a talented writer with a strange and original way of looking at the world. . . . The…

“Rich, dense, star-spangled . . . The novels of Robert Stone come to mind, and Elias Canetti’s Auto-da-Fe, and Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice,…

“Night Train to Turkistan is one of the best of the [travel] genre yet to appear. . . . Stevens has a bright, nearly…

“[An] extraordinary apocalyptic novel . . . Glavinic creates a more subtle if no less nightmarish mood than such similar books as The Day of…

“We ought to pay attention to the world of professional sports. What happens at the elite levels makes its way into our culture.” –from…

“The nine plays included in this volume are not only modern by date, 1944-1975, but in their dramatization . . . . Though each…

“A splendidly evocative account of a historic year—a year of tumult, of trauma, and of tragedy.”—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

“[A] superb history of the conquest of the North Pole. . . . In Fleming’s vivid prose, their suffering becomes a fable of men…

“Paging through the poems becomes a delightful chance to catch . . . The cacophony of voices, the range of styles, cultures, and time…