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Monsieur Teste

Valéry is the first to acknowledge that M. Teste is not fit company for everyone, but for those seekers eager to peer through forms toward essences, this beguiling, deceptively slim volume will reward multiple readings.
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The Story of a Single Woman

Uno’s own remarkable biography provides ample dramatic incident, but it is the reticent poise and reflective musings of the mature author, well conveyed in Copeland’s graceful 1992 translation, that elevate her narrative beyond mere confessional.

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The Adventures of Lady Egeria

Anticipating grisly Jacobean theatrics and the gothic novel, this remarkable recovery from the rhetorically rowdy Renaissance is a marvelously heady concoction for adventuresome ink drinkers.

Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings

An unconventional genius who lived as she thought, Fuller had a towering intellect that is often overshadowed by the force of her personality and the drama of her biography. This thoughtful survey of her wide-ranging literary output should help redress the balance. Essential.

Abortion Stories: American Literature Before Roe v. Wade

Weingarten’s selections ably reflect the complex realities and feelings surrounding this often-polarizing issue, while providing vital context for readers unfamiliar with the long, circuitous road toward reproductive justice. It’s hard to imagine a public library that shouldn’t have a copy.

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Selected Poems of Philip Lamantia, 1943–1966

Lamantia helped spark a revolution in American letters, only to be eclipsed by those he influenced. Although his weighty posthumous Collected Poems, published in 2013, is definitive, this landmark selection offers a potent dosage, easily pocketed by anyone headed “out into the world to watch the cataclysm begin.”

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The Bitter Roots

Anticipating the historical fiction of Ivan Doig and Ken Kesey, Macleod vividly immerses the reader in the adolescent angst of one young man, and of a nation.

Game Without Rules

A clever marriage of the cold unease of Le Carré and the cozy charm of Christie, these highly addictive tales of intrigue will appeal to a wide range of readers; here’s hoping the duo’s other collection, Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens, gets reprinted soon.

Black Easter

Updating the earnest spiritual fantasy of Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis, Blish conjures a startlingly effective hellscape worthy of Hieronymus Bosch.
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