Disjecta

“[Beckett] is a serious writer with something serious to say about the human condition: and therefore one of the dozen or so writers those who are concerned with modern man…

The Caddie Was a Reindeer

A joy ride through the wild world of sports from “the best sportswriter in the country” (St. Paul Pioneer Press)…

The Blindness of the Heart

“Winner of the German Book Prize . . . this is a great, big silence-breaker of a novel, a laser beam into the German darkness from a writer, one feels,…

City of the Mind

“Lively is a magical writer, and her sensuous prose tempers the metaphysical abstractions. . . . Her uncanny empathy and ability to evoke emotion make the reader feel more like…

The Devil Is Here in These Hills

From a celebrated labor historian, the definitive chronicle of the fight for freedom by West Virginia coal miners, an important chapter in American history.

Three Brothers

The English-language nonfiction debut one of China’s most highly regarded writers, winner of the Franz Kafka Prize and twice finalist for the International Booker Prize, Three Brothers is a beautiful…

Grove at Home: July 12—18

…speak any of them. (In Interslavic — which, like some other Slavic languages, can be written in either the Cyrillic alphabet (used by Russian) or the Latin alphabet (used by…

Why are we still so obsessed with Lizzie Borden?

…anything to be free. What she got instead was infamy. See is the product of 11 years of that obsession, and it’s a prickly, unsettling wonder: a story so tactile…

Spooky Halloween Reads

…taking readers deep into the backwoods of the Depression-era south and teasing out the dark compulsions and desperate longings that blur the line between love and betrayal. As a child…

Vietnam Plays Vol 1 [Basic Training]