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A marvelously offbeat, funny, irrepressible, endlessly inventive story of art and life. With philosophical mischief and earnest impiety, this island tale, like its Shakespearean antecedents, asks deep questions about where the rehearsal and performance of our existence trespasses into the thing itself.

Stephens has written about the Cooles before, and perhaps he will do so again, continuing to supply a necessary if nasty corrective to one of the myths of the moment. In a strange way his grimness nearly makes this book a political statement.

In a distant country, recently imprisoned filmmaker Vasant Rai is offered a chance at freedom. But the choice, he learns, offers itself at a very steep price. Ravi Mangla's The Observant is a sharp-eyed literary thriller.

Novelists have long understood the literary merits of Pym and often modeled their own books after its example. Jules Verne was inspired to write a sequel to Poe's novel, The Sphinx of the Ice Realm and Henry James found the title for The Golden Bowl by reading Pym. John Barth re-read Pym in the spirit of Italo Calvino's The Castle of Crossed Destinies, and Borges considered the novel to be Poe's greatest work. Melville had Pym in mind as one model for Ishmael's epistemology in Moby-Dick. Charles Romyn Dake published his sequel to Pym in the last year of the nineteenth century; in 2011, Mat Johnson based his satire on race in America, Pym: A Novel, on Poe's novel.

Grimes' The Economist continues probing the ways economies and public policies intersect with individual lives and personal conflicts. To bring pathos to an emerging "deplorable" takes this novel far beyond social commentary and well into art.

Cultural Writing. Literary Criticism. Poetics. "The wild is always unprecedented, but never inconsistent. This is the knowledge that makesAmerican scholarship American. Norman Finkelstein offers unprecedented insights here whose factsconsist of one Soul purpose: Friendship. Here the imagination of poetry is Friendship on the line. Anddriving that line are energies of the inevitable (if we are to live, Friendship is inevitable): motions outward;an outstretched hand; a goddamn big car bought and paid for lovingly. These energies speak simply, anddoing so, they accomplish new simplicities which Finkelstein boldly proposes as the most radical virtuesof poetic art. Read and see"--from the introduction by Donald Revell.

David Miller has been writing some of the most beautiful, adventurous and intelligent poetry he has ever written in the last few years, which makes the present (poetry is always in the present) a blessed time for readers like myself. Each new work astonishes and delights.

The publication of Jim Dunn's first poetry book in more than a decade is reason to rejoice.

THE BULGARIAN PSYCHIATRIST arrived with a suitcase filled with ties, and knowing how to wear a dead man''s clothes, and how to initiate a son into the art of beating a prisoner to death and ... all of which did not prepare him for a life of listening in the USA.

Novellas that espouse anti-war history and social relationships in an intertwine of various narrations, sensibilities and cataracts of consciousness.We are in the hands of a first-rate storyteller.

The intoxicating poetics of Stefania Irene Marthakis' Case Memory explore the surreality of the quotidian, vividly portrayed here in an uncanny documentary form.

""The antithesis of nature, but au contraire, what I mean is wild n free." Get liberated by Tractatus, Elise Houcek's neo-bimbo limbo through "the alluring trash/meanness of the feminine." The atmospheric drama and high hilarity of Lara Glenum meets "Britney Spears's SOS. Or a signal to the wolves, the dogs, the moon, anything chrome." Immersive as a mansion of mirrors, Houcek plays through classic poem-stuff-beauty, memory, romance, and youth-until we arrive at the "joke-bed" of being, the fun house where language goes on holiday, gets a makeover, and comes home as philosophy"--

By turns lyric and hypnotic, How Long is Now examines the delicate membranes separating past and present, authenticity of experience and transgressive truth. A Jewish-American writer, plagued by poetry and history, leaves his dying father and faithless marriage to travel to Germany and later Morocco to attend a William Burroughs conference, an unwritten novel on his plate.