The Widower's Tale: A Novel

The new novel from Julia Glass, the acclaimed author of Three Junes, is a family saga set outside Boston, focusing on a seventy-year-old man whose settlement into retirement is disrupted when he lets a preschool take over his barn.

May 24: Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Works was published on this day in 1951. Included in this omnibus edition were most of the pieces upon which her reputation now stands, putting her in a rank…

Do you recall the tagline from the very first Superman movie? "You'll believe a man can fly!" Well, I'm tempted to craft such a hyperbolic assertion for China Miéville's…

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