Modeled after the Talmud, this uniquely constructed novel introduces Abraham Tal, a New York diamond merchant who spends his days counseling friends and neighbors from his shop. A first novel.
Chronicles incidents in which an army's troops have been killed and wounded by their own comrades through blunders, panic, mistakes, and errors in judgment, from ancient times to the Persian Gulf War...
Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular...
National Book Award FinalistA vital, exhilarating new collection of poems from the National Book Critics Circle nomineeFrom lichens to malls to merchant republics, it's "another day in this here...
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER in Fiction. Booker Prize–winning novelist Fitzgerald's crowning literary work centers on the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis and his love...