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Not the End of the World

“Perpetually in-your-face: sassy, irreverent, and stylish . . . [with] a high-octane sense of the absurd.” —The Times (London)…

Night Train to Turkistan

“Night Train to Turkistan is one of the best of the [travel] genre yet to appear. . . . Stevens has a bright, nearly whimsical sensibility that can take inconvenience…

Nell Gwyn

“A lively portrait of his famous forebears, along with an account of the theater of the time and the surprisingly parallel worlds of prostitutes and royal mistresses.” –Publishers Weekly…

My War Gone By, I Miss It So

Anthony Loyd’s gripping depiction of the depravity of war in Bosnia and Chechnya “places him into the great tradition of Hemingway, Caputo, and Michael Herr.” —The Boston Globe…

The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez

“A gritty picture of life on the cusp . . . vividly rendered.” —Kirkus Reviews…

Mark Bowden, The Best Game Ever

“Entertaining and informative narration . . . [Bowden] frames the picture with a wide lens, but then focuses on the roles and lives of a few key players.” —Publishers Weekly…

Man Gone Down

“Ambitious…The book is filled with some virtuoso passages that expose the subtle degrees of racism in the narrator’s world.” –Kirkus Reviews…

Marx’s Das Kapital

“As Wheen skillfully shows, there was an underlying love-hate relationship between Marx and capitalism. As early as the Manifesto, he had written of capitalism’s operations with a sort of awe,…

The Magic of Blood

“In stories both harsh and lovely, hopeful and heartbreaking, of men on the fringes of America, Dagoberto Gilb reveals a powerful new literary voice.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer…