The True Memoirs of Little K

A century-old former prima ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet narrates her life story—in particular her intense and doomed love affair with the equally doomed heir of the Romanovs. Adrienne Sharp's prior novels have taken readers into the fascinating world of ballet, and her latest unfolds with the grace and power of that delicate, muscular art.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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