Bear Me Safely Over

“A gutsy, realistic and lyrical portrait of country people struggling to find meaning in their constricted lives. . . . An affecting narrative that explores the way people accept or…

The Fourth Angel

Goose and Tomtom

David Rabe, the celebrated playwright of Hurlyburly, explores the struggle between hope and anguish in the human spirit in this story of two small-time jewel thieves….

The Hite Report on the Family

“This book is about the one subject that’s even more taboo than sex. . . .” –Gloria Steinem…

The House of Morgan

“As a portrait of finance, politics, and the world of avarice and ambition on Wall Street, the book has the movement and tension of an epic novel. It is, quite…

Mr. Spaceman

“A novel of surprising poignance . . . Amusingly quirky . . . [Portrays] a human world that’s both in thrall to a tabloid culture of quick money and in…

Pirandello’s Henry IV

‘stoppard in his new pared-down, updated, and racily colloquial adaptation, finds both the intellectual rigor and the dramatic momentum and presents us with a quirky hybrid that is eventually and…

Charles Kaiser, author of 1968 in America, on the day Bobby Kennedy was assassinated

…times” (The New Republic), newly reissued by Grove Atlantic. ___________________________ The liquor flowed happily in suite 516 of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles that evening. In the California primary,…

Mezzanine

“A very funny book . . . Its 135 pages probably contain more insight into life as we live it today than anything currently on the best-seller list.” —The New…

World Made by Hand

“Far from a typical post-apocalyptic novel. It caters neither to a pseudo-morbid nor faddishly slick vision of the future. Though grim with portent, it is ultimately, as Camus’s novel The…