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The Beans of Egypt, Maine

by Carolyn Chute

“Chute’s novel pulses with kinetic energy. It seizes the reader on its opening page with a rhythm, a language, a knock-about country humor unmistakably its own.” —Newsweek…

About My Life and the Kept Woman

by John Rechy

“A small-town lad’s awakening, sexual and intellectual–which takes him to big-city demimondes and books that begged, in their day, to be banned. . . . Keenly observed and well-written–readers will…

The Assault on Tony’s

by John O'Brien

“O’Brien’s singular voice . . . [takes] us deep into an alcoholic’s world that few others have described so well.” —The New York Times Book Review…

The Answer Is Never

by Jocko Weyland

‘sharp and winning. . . . [Weyland] is at his best when he writes about what skating gave him as a kid–what it’s like to awaken to a sense of…

Alone With Others

by Stephen Batchelor

‘magnificent, inspiring! . . . This excellent book has come to me personally as an illuminating text, despite my close on sixty years’ concern with Buddhism . . . [Batchelor’s]…

The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

by Marquis de Sade

An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration of the psychology of sex. Lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, it was later retrieved but…

Doctor Sleep

by Madison Smartt Bell

“This man writes the way de Sica filmed. His prose is vivid without being showy, witty without being self-satisfied, economical without being minimalist. The camera disappears.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer…

Chasing Kangaroos

by Tim Flannery

“Australian scientist/conservationist/explorer Flannery (The Weather Makers, 2006, etc.) tells the remarkable story of underappreciated marsupials thriving Down Under. . . . Quite exhaustive, fired by boundless exuberance that leaps off…

Cleopatra Dismounts

by Carmen Boullosa

An enchanting, audacious retelling of the Cleopatra story from a Mexican novelist who is “a luminous writer” and “a masterful spinner of the fantastic.” –Fabiola Santiago, The Miami Herald…

Dancing Arabs

by Sayed Kashua

“Gritty and agile. . . . As a portrait of a young man’s drift into emotional no man’s land, [Dancing Arabs] has the feel of grim truth.” –The New York…