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Women in Love and Other Dramatic Writings

…of lyrical, dreamlike language. . . . Just Say No is a different animal altogether, a rollicking political satire. . . . Kramer laments the state of modern theater and exhorts fellow playwrights to create work that is “about” something. Kramer’s work, and his life, have clearly been “about” something.”…

The Wonder Garden

A keen and brilliant observer of the strangeness that is American suburbia. Acampora joins the ranks of writers like John Cheever and Tom Perrotta…

The Wonder House

“A haunting tragedy of love, beauty and bounty lost . . . The budding passion of The Wonder House cleaves closer to the tragic romance of Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things or even the cultural dalliances of E.M. Forster than to the clichéd forbidden loves of Bollywood.” —Elizabeth Kiem,…

Wonderland

“Bamberger spends a year learning the individual stories that make up a senior class, weaving them together for a composite portrait that, we hope, will give us a clear vision of a changing America. . . . For most of the students Bamberger introduces to us, it seems likely that…

Woodcuts of Women

‘dagoberto Gilb is an important voice in American fiction. These stories of working class, low-rent lives illuminated by the small pleasures of sex and…

Wish You Were Here

“[O’Nan’s] finest and deepest novel to date . . . The action rises and ebbs with the rhythms of daily life—meals, swimming, after-dinner videos,…

Wish You Weren’t Here

“A collection of 21 hilarious travel essays describing the worst travel experiences of some very funny writers.” —Judy Babcock Wylie, Chicago Daily Herald

The Witch of Hebron

The best-selling author of The Long Emergency returns with a gripping sequel to his novel World Made by Hand, which Alan Cheuse of National…