Handel’s Bestiary
From a master of literary crime fiction, a literary, visual, and musical exploration of Handel’s arias.
keep readingFrom a master of literary crime fiction, a literary, visual, and musical exploration of Handel’s arias.
keep reading“In this superb stand-alone from British author Hayder, the brutal murder of 16-year-old Lorne Wood, found dead in a park with words written on…
keep reading“From Herodotus and Aristotle through Locke and Rousseau down to Darwin, Marx and Freud. The musings on happiness of these and dozens of lesser…
keep reading“Ackerley and Gontarski have amassed an amazing amount of information about Samuel Beckett and his works, which constitutes The Grove Companion. The volume will prove useful to everyone–from the neophyte student who seeks other work by Beckett to the seasoned Beckett scholar who is not necessarily an expert on the…
keep reading“[Ethyl Eichelberger] is…a rare and idiosyncratic comic spirit . . . [He] punctured pretension while retaining his sense of the ridiculous.” –The New York…
keep reading“I watched scenes onstage of sodomy, intercourse, defecation, urination, profanity, and nudity, and found them not only acceptable but exactly and most powerfully right….
keep reading“Heart-stopping, and heart-breaking.” —James Traub, New York Times Book Review
keep reading“The most seductively frightening, best written novel of contemporary urban life that anyone has attempted in a long time; it’s the funniest, too, and…
keep reading“Guided By Voices: A Brief History delves into [Robert Pollard’s] music and the vast circle of rock musicians which have contributed to his development….
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