Umbrella
A history of the entire twentieth-century’s technological searchlight refracted through the dark glass of a long-term mental institution.
keep readingA history of the entire twentieth-century’s technological searchlight refracted through the dark glass of a long-term mental institution.
keep reading“An act of deconstruction designed to exhume the living energies of Chekhov’s writing from under the heavy weight of ‘masterpiece topsoil.’” –Robert Brustein, American…
keep reading“In this well-written, vivid, poignant account, he paints a portrait of a struggle that seems to resemble the Vietnamese battle against U.S. forces 20…
keep reading“Ambitious . . . . Tolkin is taking on the shades of literature’s foremost anatomists of ambiguously motivated murder: Dostoyevsky in Crime and Punishment…
keep reading“Vintage Miller! . . . In terms of wit and audacity, it is probably his most successful work.” —Terry Southern
keep reading“A powerful creation . . . profoundly moving. Ms. Magee’s willingness to examine the darkest elements of the conflict in a novel that still…
keep reading“Audacious of whimsy, ferocious of style. . . . A strutting, dazzling, exhilarating body of work. . . . Donnelly is unquestionably the real…
keep readingOne of the earliest novels from the Man Booker International Prize winner, Twilight of the Eastern Gods explores the Kafkaesque position of the writer…
keep reading“Alan Palmer’s lucid and intelligent biography . . . is an evocative portrait of the empire and the old-school monarch who ruled it for…
keep reading“Barthelme achieves what Chekov spoke of as grace, the most gained with the least exertion. He leads us through a shattered set of lives,…
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