Annie Dillard shops era-to-era, seeking the essence of history by taking heart from the meaning of sand.

Haruki Murakami's contemplation of separation and self is intriguing and bizarre, but fails to fulfill its promise.

Richard B. Wright's descriptions of Rome in the 1930s makes this novel worth reading.

John Fante does the down-and-out Americana better than most. This is his flop-house masterpiece.

Poet-novelist Helen Humphreys enters the Devon countryside, finding albino foxes and a woman's longing.