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Painted Horses
by Malcolm BrooksA big, enthralling debut novel of America in its ascendance, of history versus modernity, and a love story of the West, Painted Horses introduces an extraordinary new literary voice….
The Spirit Cabinet
by Paul Quarrington“Here is a magical novel . . . often funny, always surprising, and ultimately profound and very, very moving. . . . [Paul Quarrington] is a sorcerer, and his novel…
Grove at Home: March 7-13
…Books, his San Francisco landmark, renamed Jack Kerouac Alley. Here, from the San Francisco Chronicle, is the story of the 2007 celebrations marking the renovation of the street. “The crowds…
The Third Brother
by Nick McDonell“The pacing . . . is perfect. His descriptions of various things—the cafés on Khao San Road; the desperate yearning of the young for independence, experience, and drugs—are visceral and…
The Hired Man
by Aminatta Forna“Forna is a born storyteller . . . Not since Remains of the Day has an author so skillfully revealed the way history’s layers are often invisible to all but…
Querelle
by Jean Genet“Querelle is a sailor, assassin, dealer in opium, homosexual, thief, and traitor. . . . Genet takes seriously the threat latent in sexuality, and drags us with him to a…
Ultimatum
by Matthew Glass“Ultimatum does a better job of convincing the reader about the price the world will pay for its complacency about global warming than any international grandstanding. . . . Glass’s…
The Postmoderns: The New American Poetry Revised
by Donald M. AllenUnited by their “postmodernist” concerns with spontaneity, “instantism,” formal and syntactic flexibility, and the revelation of both the creator and the process through the writing itself, these 38 poets represent…
My Venice and Other Essays
by Donna Leon“Leon . . . takes both loving and jaundiced looks at Italy and the United States, music, men and many other subjects in My Venice.” —New York Times Book Review…
A Lily of the Field
by John LawtonSet in Vienna, London, and the United States, and spanning 1934 to 1948, John Lawton’s brilliant novel A Lily of the Field follows the loosely parallel lives of cellist Meret…