Amanda Eyre Ward's debut novel is an intimate portrait of three women whose lives collide during a brutal Texas summer. In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen Lowens awaits her execution wit
Tragicomedy of the highest order, this stellar collection is Croatian writer Novakovich's best ever. Hailed as one of the best short story writers of the 1990s, Josip Novakovich was praised by the Ne
Ivan Dolinar is born in Tito's Yugoslavia on April Fool's Day, 1948 -- the auspicious beginning of a life that will be derailed by backfiring good intentions in a world of propaganda and paranoia. At
"ideal Cities by Erika Meitner is the velocity and landscape, the language and heart, and the modern blur in which we live. . . From the first lines, I was captivated. They were an unassailable announ
Early one morning? after a sandstorm had ripped through north Texas? I wandered into Mr. Tilly's circus. I wore a black suit and blood ran down my face. When some of the carnies came up to me, I said,
Vital insights and wisdom on the perennial question of why our decisions don't matter This book explores how some of the greatest minds of civilization have tackled a question that continues to pla
Vital insights and wisdom on the perennial question of why we need love This book explores how some of the greatest minds of civilization have tackled a question that continues to play a vital part
Spring 1938. After nearly two years in prison for the crime of stealing his own grain, Ukrainian immigrant Teodor Mykolayenko is a free man. While he was gone, his wife, Maria; their five children; an
There are people out there, millions of them, who act as if they still believe everything their mothers told them in the first six months of their life?that they?re the nicest, most beautiful, and mos
Vital insights and wisdom on the perennial question of why we fight This book explores how some of the greatest minds of civilization have tackled a question that continues to play a vital part in
How is the internet changing the way you think? That is one of the dominant questions of our time, one which affects almost every aspect of our life and future. And it's exactly what John Brockman, pu
Passionate and brilliantly rendered, Small Wars questions how honor can exist amid cruelty and asks what becomes of intimacy in the grinding gears of empire. A major in the British Army, Hal Treher
From Terry Castle, the brilliant cultural commentator whom Susan Sontag called "the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today," comes a long-awaited collection of captivating p
The moving and hilarious true story of a young woman who found romance and laughter in the midst of illness At the age of eighteen, Angela Balcita had reached a point in her life when her health co
On October 6, 1948, a U.S. Air Force B-29 Superfortress crashed soon after takeoff, killing three civilian engineers and six crew members. In June 1949, the engineers' widows filed suit against the
The author of The Paris Model captures the glamour, style, excitement, and romance of a bygone era in this sumptuous novelset in the Sydney and London of the 1960sabout an up-and-coming young Australi
Sophie Edgar barely recognizes her husband, Thomas, an amateur naturalist, when he returns from the Amazon, where he had hoped to find his long-dreamed-of mythical butterfly, Papilio sophia. The opti
