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Terraplane

by Jack Womack

“Womack . . . performs feats of brilliance on many levels. . . . He succeeds in balancing blistering social commentary with shrewd literary experimentation. . . . Flecked with…

Teenage Hipster in the Modern World

by Mark Jacobson

…his horn. And we understand that we didn’t truly know what we thought we knew about his subject. A brilliant collection by one of our most valuable journalists.” –Pete Hamill…

Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes

by Patricia Highsmith

…human comedy. Her wry portrayals of human folly sometimes lack sympathy, but Highsmith condescends wittily and without favor, and so we soon cease to take offense.” —The New York Times…

The Sweet Smell of Psychosis

by Will Self

“Brilliant, iconoclastic . . . one of Britain’s most original young writers.” –Time…

Second Violin

by John Lawton

“Smart and gracefully written . . . It has been Lawton’s achievement to capture, in first-rate popular fiction, the courage and drama—and the widespread tomorrow-we-may-die exuberance—of that terrible and thrilling…

The Rose of Martinique

by Andrea Stuart

“The Rose of Martinique is a comprehensive and truly empathetic biography. Andrea Stuart, who was raised in the Caribbean, combines scholarly distance with a genuine attempt to understand her heroine.”…

The Retreat

by Patrick Rambaud

“In The Retreat, a novel much praised for its level of historical detail, French writer Patrick Rambaud locates little grandeur in the ghastly carnage of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. ….

Recital of the Dog

by David Rabe

“A gifted prose writer of original vision . . . In both voice and structure, Recital of the Dog owes much both to Albert Camus and James M. Cain. ….

A Quiet Life

by Kenzaburo Oe

…. . portraits drawn with affection, insight and that wry humor . . . that is one of the defining qualities of [Oe’s] talent.” –The New York Times Book Review…

The Player

by Michael Tolkin

“One of the most wounding and satirical of all Hollywood expos’s: dark and mordant . . . savage. . . . A portrait of life among the high-rollers and deal…