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- Robert Alter
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (Norton)
Biblical scholar Robert Alter faces a barrage of questions: What are psalms? Who wrote them? If they are prayers, why does he consider them poems?30 min - Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
This wide-ranging yet intimate conversation with Junot Díaz explores many difficult subjects...
30 min - Veronica Gonzalez
twin time: or how death befell me (Semiotext(e))
The heroine of twin time is a woman whose life is surrounded by mystery. Who is her father? Where is her mother? Why did no one tell her she has a twin brother?30 min - Rupert Thomson
Death of a Murderer (Knopf)
A factual series of murders provides the background for this novel: theMoor Murders that haunted the British imagination in the 1960's.30 min - Alice Sebold
The Almost Moon (Little, Brown)
Alice Sebold wrote The Lovely Bones, one of the most beloved andlovable books in recent years. How did she prepare herself for theonslaught she'll face with The Almost Moon, a book which, for all itsquality, is resolutely in the realm of unlovability.30 min - Ana Castillo
The Guardians (Random House)
This is a novel about borders in which borders disappear: the borderbetween old and young, between secular and sacred, between states—butnot the border between the U.S. and Mexico.30 min - William Gibson
Spook Country (Putnam)
Along with themost sophisticated future-predictions, speculations about the sociologyof cities, and adventures in virtual post-realities, William Gibson has finallylearned how to get his characters from one room to another.30 min - Viken Berberian
Das Kapital: A Novel of Love and Money Markets (Simon & Schuster)
Viken Berberian writes in a post-modern apocalyptic vein about billionaire stock traders, terrorists and nationalists.30 min - Marianne Wiggins
The Shadow Catcher (Simon & Schuster)
With its fascinating combination of history, biography, memoir and essay, is The Shadow Catcher a novel?30 min - Miranda July
No one belongs here more than you and Learning to Love You More, co-author Harrell Fletcher (Prestel)
Miranda July's film Me and You and Everyone We Knowcaptured the mood of a generation –- and its attention. In this firstbook of stories, we find the same fear of paralysis, the samenarcotized, sleepwalker affect. Why does Miranda July, a tirelesswhirlwind, identify with these listless characters?30 min
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