Healing Earthquakes
“Jimmy Santiago Baca is a force in American poetry. Now, with Healing Earthquakes, he has accomplished its grand result in a book of brilliant…
keep reading“Jimmy Santiago Baca is a force in American poetry. Now, with Healing Earthquakes, he has accomplished its grand result in a book of brilliant…
keep reading“A more clear-sighted view [of the Bushmen] is long overdue–which makes Rupert Isaacson’s book most welcome.” –The Economist
keep readingWritten in 1925 and unpublished in the Soviet Union until 1987, Mikhail Bulgakov’s satire is as ferocious and timely now as when it was…
keep readingThe debut novel from a writer of wry humor and warm humanity, Heart of Palm is an indelible portrait of a town and one…
keep reading“A marvelously constructed tragicomedy. It helps to remind us of Beckett’s skills as a portraitist—a draper of vigorous flesh on what might have resulted…
keep reading“Rich and multilayered, Lee’s novel explores what it means to be a part of something, whether it’s a family or a culture. Told in…
keep reading“Sensitively and intelligently composed . . . [Harbor Lights] sings with a poetic simplicity that recalls Russell Banks or Carolyn Chute.” –Publishers Weekly
keep reading“Joseph Wambaugh took crime fiction to a whole new level, to something beyond classification. These are stories with depth of character and humor and…
keep reading“Tom Stoppard’s first play for nine years is typically witty—an intellectually charged piece that delights in the slippery nature of language and pulses with…
keep reading“Banana Yoshimoto is doing her part to keep the novella tradition alive. . . . Exciting . . . Despite the somber nature of…
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