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A history of the entire twentieth-century’s technological searchlight refracted through the dark glass of a long-term mental institution.

Uncle Vanya

“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…

Under a Sickle Moon

“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…

Under Radar

“Ambitious . . . . Tolkin is taking on the shades of literature’s foremost anatomists of ambiguously motivated murder: Dostoyevsky in Crime and Punishment…

The Undertaking

“A powerful creation . . . profoundly moving. Ms. Magee’s willingness to examine the darkest elements of the conflict in a novel that still…

Two Against One

“Barthelme achieves what Chekov spoke of as grace, the most gained with the least exertion. He leads us through a shattered set of lives,…