Caleb M Crain

A Game of Hide and Seek (New York Review Books Classics)

Harriet and Vesey meet when they are teenagers, and their love is as intense and instantaneous as it is innocent. But they are young. All life still lies ahead. Vesey heads off hopefully to pursue a career as an actor. Harriet marries and has a child, becoming a settled member of suburban society. A...

American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation

"A friend in history," Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "looks like some premature soul." And in the history of friendship in early America, Caleb Crain sees the soul of the nation's literature. In a sensitive analysis that weaves together literary criticism and historical narrative, Crain describes ...

Necessary Errors: A Novel

ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS The Wall Street Journal • Slate • Kansas City Star • Flavorwire • Policy Mic • Buzzfeed“Necessary Errors is a very good novel, an enviably good one, and to read it is to relive all the anxieties and illusions and grand projects of one’s own youth.”—James Wood, The New Yo...

Vaclav Havel: The Authorized Biography

Chronicles the eventful life of the playwright, poet, revolutionary, and statesman, including his beginnings as a writer and dissident in the Communist era and his emergence as a world leader and former president of a democratic Czechoslovakia. National ad/promo.

n+1, Number Four: Reconstruction

RECONSTRUCTION, featuring n+1's symposium on American Literature; Philip Connors on life at the Wall Street Journal; Mark Greif's "Afternoon of the Sex Children"; Benjamin Kunkel's "The Novel"; Keith Gessen's "Money"; Elif Batuman's "Short Story"; Gregoire Bouillier's "The Mystery Guest." Chad Harba...

Army of the Lich (Guardians of Light Book 1)

The monsters and creatures of the dark exist with the only line of defense being the mysterious Order. In the shadows of the dark realm, an ancient entity stirs from an endless rest and desires conquest. Can the half-human agent, Edward Drake, and swordsman, Jacob Wilson, stop a warlord who has defe...

The Tenor Saxophonist's Story

The celebrated author of THE BASS SAXOPHONE, THE REPUBLIC OF WHORES, and THE BRIDE OF TEXAS, Josef Skvorecky has won international acclaim for the acerbic, funny, and haunting novels of his native Czechoslovakia--the wry world of political repression that shaped him as a writer. Once more, he sharpe...

Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics)

Called a “remarkable story” by John Greenleaf Whittier and described by John Keats as “very powerful,” Wieland, Charles Brockden Brown’s disturbing 1798 tale of terror, is a masterpiece involving spontaneous combustion, disembodied voices, religious mania, and a gruesome murder based on a real-life ...

American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation

Ned V. Kate

Vaclav Havel: The Authorized Biography

Wieland

The Algerine Captive: Or, the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill

Vaclav Havel: The Authorized Biography

The Tenor Saxophonist's Story