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A Suspension of Mercy
Patricia Highsmith
Paperback
A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist.
Fugitive Kind
Tennessee Williams, Allean Hale
Paperback
Social outcasts, misfit survivors, dangerous passions—Tennessee Williams fleshed out the characters and themes that would dominate his later work in Fugitive Kind, one of his earliest plays.
Karmic Traces: Essays
Eliot Weinberger
Paperback
For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal journalism and into...
Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts
Roger Shattuck
Paperback
With Candor and Perversion, Roger Shattuck has written the most complete assessment of the poxes that threaten our Western literary heritage.
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel
Robert Alter
Paperback
"A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999