True Romance
“Tarantino creates a world of tough guys, bravado, lurid melodrama, easy women, betrayal, guns and drugs. . . . The energy and style of…
keep reading“Tarantino creates a world of tough guys, bravado, lurid melodrama, easy women, betrayal, guns and drugs. . . . The energy and style of…
keep reading“Reading Trusting Ourselves is tantamount to taking a short course in the psychology of women. Any reader, male or female, will benefit from this…
keep reading“Marvelous . . . This subtle and deceptively simple tale is an elegiac and beautiful tragicomedy about a single summer, two towns, and three…
keep reading“[An] outstanding history. . . . [Von Drehle] has written what is sure to become the definitive account of the fire. . . ….
keep reading“In the manner of an epic Tom Clancy blockbuster, Glass’s . . . interconnected worlds of finance and politics exist in three (if not…
keep reading“The most original of First World War centenary books. . . . A travel narrative of rare resonance and insight.” —Sunday Times (UK)
keep readingA collection of Horton Foote’s best-known and most-loved screenplays, revealing the deep currents of American society through the simplest details of daily life.
keep reading“To the illustrious list of names: Yeats, Joyce, Behan, O’Casey, Beckett, add O’Brien. . . . [She] uses words the way a juggler employs…
keep reading“You need know nothing of Zen to become immersed in his work. You will inevitably know something of Zen when you emerge.” – Jim…
keep reading“[An] imaginative and engaging novel of urban fantasy. . . . Overlapping narrative voices nicely underscore the moral of Sinisalo’s ingeniously constructed fable: The stuff of ancient legend shadows with rather unnerving precision the course of unloosed postmodern desire.” —Chris Lehmann, The Washington Post Book World…
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