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F I C T I O N Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories By Angela Carter
This collection, from a gifted fictional maximalist who bathed in luxurious sentences, charts the arc of her fascinating career.
Cross Channel: Stories By Julian Barnes
In ten stories that function as a unified work, Barnes unearths the fragile and often fractious relationship between Britain and France.
Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories By Gina Berriault
Bright wordplay with an almost Eastern European bite -- think Chekhov or Kundera -- mark these fine stories by the American writer.
Audrey Hepburn's Neck By Alan Brown
Set in Tokyo, this disarmingly funny book -- which details the life of a 23-year-old cartoonist -- contrasts the idiosyncrasies of American and Japanese culture.
A White Merc With Fins By James Hawes
A quixotic, sharply observed first novel, set in England, about a balding, depressed young man who decides to rob an exclusive bank.
N O N F I C T I O N A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat By Jeremy Seal
Tracing the origins of a hat inextricably linked to Turkey (but banned there in 1925), the young author delivers a vivid peek inside a complex culture.
We're Right, They're Wrong By James Carville
A smart, home-spun set of bullet points -- a virtual pep rally -- for Democrats, via the feisty former Clinton campaign manager.
Blake: A Biography By Peter Ackroyd
A thorough, readable exploration of William Blake's life and the hallucinatory genius of his work.
The Net of Dreams By Julie Salamon
From the author of "The Devil's Candy," an idiosyncratic comparison of the making of Stephen Spielberg's "Schindler's List" and the reminiscences of the author's mother, who survived Auschwitz.
Terrors and Experts By Adam Phillips
The things we fear, this psychotherapist and charming essayist argues, are often the very things that define us as human beings.
