The Breaking of Nations

“Essentially an attempt to bridge the ideological divide between hard and soft power. Both, he suggests in this short, elegant collection of essays, are necessary in today’s messy world.” –The…

The Ubu Plays

“One of the epock-making scandals of Western theater. . . . Ubu’s appetite is for power. He represents the apocalyptic slob, the roaring, grasping “man of the people” who chomps…

The Bulgari Connection

…sharp, comical observations on subjects ranging from contemporary British painters and arts funding and programming to the contrast between Western and Eastern medicine.” –Sylvia Brownrigg, New York Times Book Review…

New Japanese Voices

“A happy marriage of contemporary Western culture with the traditional Japanese sensibility makes this story collection by young Japanese writers a worthwhile successor to a distinguished literary past.” –Kirkus Reviews…

Here on Earth

…narrative about the history of our planet and the evolution of our species, written by Tim Flannery, one of the world’s leading writer-scientists and an internationally acclaimed explorer and environmentalist.…

Malaria Dreams

“One of the funniest tales of misadventure to come along in quite a while. . . . Mr. Stevens has a wonderful eye for the curiosities of human behavior, Third…

Story of My Life

“[McInerney’s] talent for capturing the nuances and idiosyncrasies of our culture is even more powerfully evident in The Story of My Life . . . Underneath Alison’s hip, partygirl exterior…

theMystery.doc

With praise from Alan Moore and Rachel Kushner, a groundbreaking novel told in an exciting new form, mixing fiction, memoir, prose poetry, and textual art, exploring birth, death, the Internet,…

The Rose of Martinique

“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.”…

Levi’s Children