Vietnam Plays Vol 2 [Streamers]

Naked at Lunch

From naked grocery shopping to the Big Nude Boat, a comic novelist turned narrative journalist lays bare the world of the nudist.

Murphy

“The humor and tragedy of Murphy’s search for his own self has been set down in the brilliant, highly individual style that also distinguishes Beckett’s more recent work. The dialogue…

Lyrics Alley

“Haunting . . . Keeps the reader gripped . . . A tale of powerful feelings and potent words . . . this visceral, epic novel . . . gives…

The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens

“A potent compound of both sex and rapture. . . . This remarkable story, as Rechy tells it, is sly, smart, sexy and laugh-out-loud funny, but it is also tinged…

The Last Jew

“Of the novelists I have discovered in translation . . . the three for whom I have the greatest admiration are Gabriel García Márquez, Peter Handke, and Yoram Kaniuk.” —Susan…

How It Is

“The absolute sureness of design. . . built phrase by phrase into a beautifully and tightly wrought structure–a few dozen expressions permuted with deliberate redundancy accumulate meaning even as they…

Global Village Idiot

“Very funny.” –The Guardian…

February

“Luminous . . . Moore offers us, elegantly, exultantly, the very consciousness of her characters. In this way, she does more than make us feel for them. She makes us…

The Breaking of Nations

“Essentially an attempt to bridge the ideological divide between hard and soft power. Both, he suggests in this short, elegant collection of essays, are necessary in today’s messy world.” –The…