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The Raymond Chandler Papers
by Tom Hiney“Chandler, the premiere practictioner of the American hard-boiled detective novel, elevated the wisecrack into a rhetorical figure somewhere between sarcasm and simile. For the Chandler fan, The Raymond Chandler Papers…
The Qur’an
by Bruce Lawrence“Timely and provocative. . . . Laurence’s history of the Qur’an [is] highly instructive. . . . The history of the book is a map of the world we live…
A Question of Belief
by Donna Leon“The humid, oppressive Venetian summer is palpable in Donna Leon’s 19th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery. . . . Leon creates such a rich sense of place that reading often feels…
The Queen of the Ring
by Jeff Leen“In a class by itself. A serious history of one of this country’s goofiest pastimes. . .one senses that [Leen has] left no stone unturned in researching Burke’s story.” —The…
The Collected Shorter Plays
by Samuel Beckett“Beckett stalks after men on their way out. . . . His plays and novels (Molloy, Murphy) are metaphors of modern man’s spiritual bafflement.” —Time…
Prosperous Friends
by Christine Schutt“Give me the tough, adamantine beauty of Christine Schutt’s writing any day. Her new novel . . . is Portrait of a Lady one hundred and thirty years on, except…
Plexus
by Henry Miller“Plexus is the core volume in The Rosy Crucifixion: the volume which has the most complete description of Henry Miller’s basic values, beliefs, opinions, judgments, both at the time of…
Plato’s Republic
by Simon Blackburn“Plato’s Republic . . . which Blackburn rightly suggests is the first book to shake the world, is loaded with perennial questions that every generation must struggle with. How are…
Pig Island
by Mo Hayder“Mo Hayder, who writes dark, perfect thrillers . . . now spins a shivery tale about a cult on the west coast of Scotland, where the weather nourishes bleak menace.”…
The People’s Act of Love
by James Meek“Meeks builds multiple narratives to a bloody, satisfying, yet unsettling conclusion. People’s Act of Love stands not only as a keenly observed historical thriller but as a resonant tale of…
