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Double Happiness

by Mary-Beth Hughes

Celebrated author Mary-Beth Hughes returns with a knockout collection of stories that are by turns “devastating, poignant, desperate, and true” (Mary Gaitskill)….

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…

Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused

by Howard Goldblatt

“In contrast to the utopian official literature of Communist China, the stories in this wide-ranging collection marshal wry humor, entangled sex, urban alienation, nasty village politics and frequent violence. ….

Cromwell

by Antonia Fraser

“Rich and extraordinary.” –The New York Times…

The End of Vandalism

by Tom Drury

“Brilliant, wonderfully funny . . . It’s hard to think of any novel—let alone a first novel—in which you can hear the people so well. This is indeed deadpan humor,…

Bananas

by Peter Chapman

“United Fruit essentially invented not only ‘the concept and reality of the banana republic,’ but also, as Chapman shows, the concept and reality of the modern banana. [A] witty, energetic…

The Coast of Utopia

by Tom Stoppard

“Exhilarating! Pulses with the dizzying arrogance and anxiety of a new generation moving as fast as it can.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times…

The Caddie Was a Reindeer

by Steve Rushin

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

Remembering P. J. O’Rourke

…administration, but government itself.” USA Today: “O’Rourke was a Toledo, Ohio, native who evolved from long-haired student activist to wavy-haired scourge of his old liberal ideals, with some of his…

Grove at Home: January 3-9

…— and there’s never been a more urgent time to learn it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7gttGBhU7Q   Sofi Oksanen on the dangers of indifference Today we’re wishing a very happy forty-fourth birthday to…