In this collection of essays and epigrams, E.M. Cioran gives us portraits and evaluations—which he calls "admirations"—of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the poet P
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Brought completely up to date, this insightful biography remains "a must for any self-respecting Coen fan" (Screentrade).This fully updated edition of the first biography of the Coen Brothers includes
In her brilliant debut, Storey brings early 16th-century Florence alive, and has entered with extraordinary empathy into the minds and souls of two Renaissance masters, creating a stunning art history
Like Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, an extraordinarily moving and engaging look at loss and death.Eve Joseph is an award-winning poet who worked for twenty years as a palliative care coun
A finalist for the Woman’s Prize for Fiction and critically acclaimed in the UK, When I Hit You is a powerful and intimate chronical of an abusive marriage.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE
A Bestseller in Korea, a Psychological Thriller about Loneliness and the Dark Truths We Try to BuryIn this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Ogi has woken from a coma after
At the heart of every life there lies a secret.Alex Smyth, of Irish birth but living for many years with his wife in rural Canada, receives a trout fly in the mail, with no message and no return addre
The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as t
Mo Yan, China’s most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country’s contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels as Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, and The Republi
From an award-winning author, a moving story of acceptance, adaptation, and unconditional love in the face of Alzheimer’s disease.You just can’t plan for this kind of thing.Diane Tate certainly hasn’t
Mary J. Macleod and her husband left the London area for an idyllic place to raise their young children in the late sixties, and they found the island of Papavray in the Scottish Hebrides. There they
A New York Times Best Seller!When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death
Beginning with a sweetly funny, moving account of an arranged marriage in Pakistan that would become a love match lasting forty years,Threading My Prayer Rug is the story of many journeys: from Pakist
Mary J. Macleod and her husband left the London area for an idyllic place to raise their young children in the late sixties, and they found the island of Papavray in the Scottish Hebrides. There they
Wilkie Collins was the first great detective novelist. His dark and complex mysteries influenced the work of other writers, such as Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens, with whom he developed a close
Malcolm X remains a touchstone figure for black America and in American culture at large. He gave African Americans not only their consciousness but their history, dignity, and a new pride. No single
