Tabloid Dreams
“Genius . . . Turning the lurid third-person titles of his stories into direct testimony from the principles, Mr. Butler often transforms the material’s…
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The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife & Other Plays
“An uproarious, window-rattling comedy of midlife malaise . . . Busch demonstrates a sure gift for hearty comedy. . . . The Allergist’s Wife earns its wall-to-wall laughs.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times…
keep readingTales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes
“While best known as a writer of thrillers, Highsmith is concerned with crafting stories to evoke the 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…
keep readingTales of the New World
In her first collection of stories since her PEN/Faulkner-winning The Caprices, Sabina Murray delves into the singular minds of history’s greatest explorers and reimagines…
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“If biography is to be defined as “the history of an individual conceived as a work of art,” then Mr. Duff Cooper’s book would…
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“Welsh’s novel is as quick and dark as a child’s nightmare. . . . Fictionalizes Marlowe’s last days with novelistic wit and interpretive imagination….
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“Harrison has proved to be one of our finest storytellers. His new collection, The Summer He Didn’t Die, gives us more from the master. . . . These new novellas are urgent and contemporary, displaying his marvelous gifts for compression and idiosyncratic language.” —Jane Ciabattari, Los Angeles Times…
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“Affecting . . . Riveting . . . A thrilling tale that unravels mysteries of the human heart, The Summer of the Bear is…
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“Elderkin has crafted a complex, heartbreaking tale, entwining the lives of quirky characters in an improbable but compelling narrative illustrating the agonizing potential of…
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“Surrealism is now associated more with whimsy than with the lacerating and uncanny effects first sought by the French poets who first formulated its…
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