All Joe Knight

by Kevin Morris

An audacious debut novel set in hardscrabble Philadelphia about an orphan named Joe and the basketball team that raised him—a team that also has the power to be his undoing….

Deafening

by Frances Itani

“Moving and memorable. . . . Itani is an artist who understands what to include and what to leave out, when to whisper and when to shout. . . ….

Adios Hemingway

by Leonardo Padura Fuentes

“An elegantly turned meditation on the cold realities of age, the waning of strength and beauty and the production of literary myth. . . . Adios Hemingway reads cleanly and…

Faggots

by Larry Kramer

“Writing as always from an affirmatively homosexual point of view, Kramer in this novel conveys a sense of premonitory unease, even foreboding, about the spread of promiscuity, sadomasochism and narcotics…

Where We Have Hope

by Andrew Meldrum

“Gripping . . . Meldrum provides names, faces and photographs of the players involved. . . . His firsthand experience of the horrors adds a chilling authenticity to this account.”…

The Eternal Frontier

by Tim Flannery

“A sweeping natural history of North America from its birth as a self-contained continent in the Cretaceous Era to its current precarious status as an ecological superpower. . . ….

Bringing the Heat

by Mark Bowden

“Among the best football books ever.” –Kirkus Reviews…

The Dream Police

by Dennis Cooper

“The Dream Police fights the context of poetry in a way I can only call urgent and beautiful. He is interested in evacuating all notions of poem to begin again.”…

Forgery

by Sabina Murray

“Forgery is as flavorsome as a summer month in the Greek isles.” —Richard Lipez, Washington Post…

The Return of the Caravels

by António Lobo Antunes

A powerful indictment of Portuguese colonialism and another literary tour de force from the pen of Antonio Lobo Antunes, “a master navigator of the human psyche . . . [with]…

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