Storming Heaven
“Fascinating . . . The most compelling account yet of how these hallucinogenic, or psychedelic, drugs became an explosive force in postwar American history.”…
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Stargazing
“It’s 1973, Watergate and Vietnam, the Grateful Dead. What are you going to be when you grow up? asks a friend. A lighthouse keeper,…
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“Kaye describes the city in richly evocative detail, suffusing it with real feeling. . . . His Los Angeles is replete with awful happenings,…
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From the writer who reinvented the Russian crime novel, a gripping tale of political subterfuge and murder in turn-of-the-century Moscow featuring the inimitable hero…
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“Stealing Beauty is a joy to behold . . . a richly satisfying chamber piece that is both literary and utterly contemporary. . ….
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“In the opener, a trio of tourists . . . contemplate Michelangelo’s David in hilarious Restoration comedy-like asides as they are overcome by the statue’s, uh, size and power. . . . In the second play, a philandering super conductor is driven to a, well, unexpected climax by Wagner. The…
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“By some miracle of training, which recalls the linguistic bravado of Conrad and Nabokov, he is already a master of pungent and disciplined English…
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“What makes Friedman more interesting than most of Malamud, Roth and Bellow is the sense he affords of possibilities larger than the doings and undoings of the Jewish urban bourgeois’.What…
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‘diana Athill has a delightful way with the English language–crisp, scrupulously honest, precise and without a micron of self-indulgence. . . . Luckily for…
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“A miniature Gothic horror story that Stevenson himself and even Henry James would have found chilling.” –Anna Mundow, The Boston Globe
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