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Sewer, Gas & Electric

by Matt Ruff

“Ruff is a protean talent. . . . Very much in the absurdist tradition of Pynchon, Heller, Robbins, and Vonnegut, this is a mad romp through a future that Ruff…

A Personal Matter

by Kenzaburo Oe

“In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both.” –Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor…

Long Way to Go

by Jonathan Coleman

“Not since Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma has anyone laid bare America’s racial problems with such clarity, insight and drama. Coleman has written a classic.” –Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law…

Life and Death in Shanghai

by Nien Cheng

“The extraordinary story of an extraordinary woman who, despite 6 1/2 long years of imprisonment and torment in Communist China, not only survived but endured and even prevailed. . ….

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life

by Bill Brewster

“Brewster and Broughton . . . have written a lively and—to anyone with a more than casual interest in the history of popular music in the latter half of the…

The Inheritance of Loss

by Kiran Desai

“Briskly paced and sumptuously written, the novel ponders questions of nationhood, modernity, and class, in ways both moving and revelatory.” –The New Yorker…

Elizabeth

by Alexander Walker

“A fine, serious, readable attempt to understand a woman who became a star-cum-studio victim . . . informative, thoughtful, and understanding.” –The Listener…

The Bible

by Karen Armstrong

“Karen Armstrong preaches the gospel truth in The Bible, explaining how the spiritual guide for one out of three people on the planet came into being and evolved over the…

The Devil That Danced on the Water

by Aminatta Forna

“Powerful. . . . At once impassioned, lucid, and understandably enraged, The Devil That Danced on the Water illuminates the troubled, tragic history of a country and a continent.” —O,…

The Best of It

by Kay Ryan

“Melancholy lucidity is Ryan’s greatest gift, and it can be heard in all her most successful poems. But her most startling discovery is that melancholy, with its tendency to brood…