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“Willie Tarrant recalls both Scout in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Nel in Toni Morrison’s Sula. . . . A captivating heroine….

a: A Novel

“Hellish hymns from Amphetamine Heaven, the vox populi of the Velvet Underground . . . These people are witty and they are grand, they…

A.J. Ayer

“A delightful discourse on an extraordinarily full life: Rogers succeeds in capturing the spirit of a philosophical maverick who many loved to hate.” –Kirkus…

About Face

“Leon . . . is so generous with the humanizing details that make this series special. There are long walks in Brunetti’s warm company…

About Harry Towns

“About Harry Towns is a goddamn heartbreaking delight and you are a fool if you miss it. Friedman has created a character unique, haunting, and completely memorable in stories which tickle, depress, gouge below the belt and at a second or third reading hold up as nothing less than a…

The Accident

The new novel from internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author Ismail Kadare documents an ill-fated love affair, in which passion, jealousy, and obsession collide in the…

The Accusation

A collection of searing and heart-wrenching stories by an anonymous North Korean writer who is still living in North Korea and whose manuscript was…