“Oliver Sacks, Richard Selzer, Lewis Thomas . . . Weissmann is in this noble tradition.”—Los Angeles Times“Weissmann introduces us to a new way of thinking about the connections between art and medici
“Mark Podwal . . . shake[s] the brain into fresh juxtapositions of understanding.”—Cynthia Ozick“Mark Podwal’s original drawings . . . reflect his great talent.”—Elie WieselMark Podwal may be best kno
"A flawless black diamond . . . luminous."?L'Hebdo (Switzerland)"A knock-out."?Madame Figaro (France)"Kramer's sensuous, close observation casts a hypnotic spell on the narrative, leaving the reader u
"All hail Lock, whose narrative soul sings fairy tales, whose language is glass."?? Kate Bernheimer, editor of My mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me and Fairy Tale Review"Our finest modern fabu
?Ghost Moth is an impressive debut by a writer who is not afraid to address the so-called ordinary lives of real human beings. We shall be hearing a great deal more from Michele Forbes.” ?JOHN BANVILL
?Dr. Reicher’s memoir tells a gripping, tragic, unforgettable tale that, like Wladyslaw Szpilman’s The Pianist, recounts the horrors of being a Jew in Poland during World War II. This important histor
Leonardo’s Foot stretches back to the fossil record and forward to recent discoveries in evolutionary science to demonstrate that it was our feet rather than our brains that first distinguished us fro
?Aaron’s Leap takes you on an epic journey, which is also a very intimate and personal story?entertaining, touching and brutally honest. Her characters are full of compassion and tenderness, but are n
“With this highly readable and cosmically accessible book, Alan Hirshfeld has done for the measurement of the cosmos what Dava Sobel did for the measurement of longitude. . . . Readers will never agai
“Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller.” —DANIEL ALARCON, author of At Night We Walk in CirclesIn Monastery, the nomadic narrator of Eduardo Halfon’s critically-acclaimed The Polish Boxer returns
“Once I started reading these stories, I couldn’t stop. They absorbed me thoroughly, with their taut narratives and evocative language—the language of a poet.” —JAY PARINI, author of Jesus: The Human
Diane DeSanders writes the sort of prose that gives that telltale tingle down the spine, prose that paints vivid pictures in the mind and presents an entire, unique world: the Lone Star State, t
Very few people have spent as much time as William E. Glassley in such deep wilderness. So it would behoove us to pay attention even if he had not brought back such a fascinating, lovely, and us
Oliver Sacks, Richard Selzer, Lewis Thomas . . . Weissmann is in this noble tradition.” Los Angeles Times[Weissmann] is a man of wide culture, a captivating and graceful writer
