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“At one and the same time, a metaphysical and comic murder mystery, a Grimm’s fairy tale, a Greek tragedy, and a complicated experimental novel…
keep readingGeronimo Rex
“Barry Hannah writes about adolescence with a rare pizzazz and insight. . . . [He] flings around his prose like the baton of a…
keep readingGet Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I’m Kissing You Good-bye!
“Like Dorothy Parker, Ms. Heimel is an urban romantic with a scathing X-ray vision that penetrates her most deeply cherished fantasies.” –The New York…
keep readingGhost Town
“The lonesome abstract cadences suggest Samuel Beckett. . . . As a gunsmokin” wordslinger, Coover rides high in the saddle.” –The Boston Globe
keep readingGhosts from the Nursery
“Karr-Morse and Wiley boldly raise some tough issues. . . . [They] start with a grim question—why are children violent?—and they forge a passionate…
keep readingThe Giant of the French Revolution
The Giant of the French Revolution tells the story of George-Jacques Danton—visionary leader and tragic hero—in a work The Economist called “a gripping story,…
keep readingGiantkillers
“Scammell’s book offers a compelling argument for the importance of tort claims in protecting consumers and the government.” –Robert Bryce, The Washington Post
keep readingGigantic
“[The] stories are suffused with a sort of poetry. . . . Beautiful . . . Nesbitt is smart, dark, and funny, like a…
keep readingGalileo
“The play which most strongly stamped on my mind a sense of Brecht’s great stature as an artist of the modern theatre was Galileo.”…
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