A collection of columns originally published in various magazines between 1973 and 1997 discusses science fiction, science and society, the profession of writing, and other writers

Enlightenment ideals of a society rooted in liberationist reason and morality were trampled in the wake of the savagery of the Second World War. That era's union of cold technology and ancient hatreds gave rise to a dark, alternative reason—an ethic that was value-free and indifferent with regard to virtue and vice, freedom, and slavery. In a world where "the unthinkable" had become reality, it is small wonder that theorists would turn to the writings of a man whose eighteenth-century imagination preceded twentieth-century history in its unbridled exploration of viciousness, perversion, and monstrosity: the Marquis de Sade. Klossowski was one of the first philosophers in postwar Europe to ask whether Sade's reason, although aberrant and perverted to evil passions, could be taken seriously. Klossowski's seminal work inspired virtually all subsequent study of Sadean thought, including that of de Beauvoir, Deleuze, Derrida, Bataille, Blanchot, Paulhan, and Lacan.

Quinn thought he had all the angles figured. After all, taking over the Organization should be a piece of cake for such a smart guy. But what he didn’t figure was that boss Ryder would stuff him in a large crate with enough food and water to sustain him - and ship him around the world. When the freighter ports at the North African town of Okar, the captain of the boat decides it's time to unload the box. It's starting to make noises, and it smells bad. What emerges from this wooden coffin looks barely human. But once Quinn recovers, he starts to look around. Is this a new chance at life, or an opportunity to cash in on another racket, halfway around the world?

Originally published in 1983 and now reissued, a portrayal of middle-class Englishwomen in the interwar period which draws on the work of such novelists as May Sinclair, Rosamond Lehmann and Rebecca West.

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Living in a rat-infested hotel in Franco’s post-war Spain, André Bennett, a Canadian painter, loves Toni, his girl friend, who wants him to return home. Roger Kraus, a Nazi on the run, shadows the young artist day and night. They meet on a bridge during the last night of the fiesta, and as the sky is shredded by exploding fireworks, the story draws to its violent climax. Originally published in 1954, The Acrobats marks Mordecai Richler’s stunning debut as a novelist.

Product Description Chronicles the imaginative, phantasmagorial adventures of a young woman, Raquel, the daughter of a Brazilian-Jewish parents, a prize convent-school student, and lover of Miguel From Publishers Weekly Scliar has written a tangled mysterious novel of Jewish alienation and mystic Catholic redemption. Born of Jewish-Hungarian parents, Raquel Szenes grows up amid the dogma and mysticism of the Brazilian Catholic church. She is also estranged from Jewish devotion by her ethnic isolation and enthralled by surreal visions of retribution and sublime redemption. In time, her shattered psyche attaches itself to various secular dietieslove, sex, money. Ultimately, death at the hands of the demented spectral narrator is her only release from a cycle of devotion and sudden damnation. Scliar's lean parable-like prose is by turns precise, evasive and erotic. Specific in detailing her childhood and life with her parents, Scliar is opaque and puzzling when he endows Raquel with aimless zealotry and arrogance. A sometimes fascinating, sometimes awkward novel of Brazilian ethnicity, assimilation and identity. (AugustpThe more than 75 sugar- and dairy-free desserts in this book demonstrate how much health foods have changed in recent years. No longer need dessert be a grainy-textured, carob-filled penance, reminding one with every bite of what one is missing. The desserts offered here provide a satisfying, sweet and, above all, festive touch to the end of a meal. There are simple fruit compotes, apple and strawberry mousses, almond torte with raspberry filling, ginger-peach pie, maple-walnut cookies and a Guinness spice cake that is a sure winter favorite. (Sugar-free sweetening is made possible by the use of barley syrup, fruit juices and maple syrup.) The authors are not antagonistic toward eggs but also endorse kanten, kuzu and tofu, all of which are readily available at health food stores. These recipes will be appreciated by people allergic to milk products. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Twelve-year-old time traveler Eli Sands continues his search for his missing mom, encountering new characters and trying to save the free world from tyrannical rule.

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The Wild Card is that gem among books: a selection of those enduring works that will definitively represent the poet as one of the major artists of our time. Karl Shapiro, who won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1945 for his second collection, V-Letter and Other Poems, is an American poetic treasure and an acknowledged master of lyrical poetry whose subjects have ranged from commonplace objects and occurrences to biting political commentary to open celebrations of the "necessary contradictions" in humanity's moral nature.

Rebecca Nachman is a Rabbi without a synagogue. Having resigned from her dwindling congregation, she now works as a college counselor at a small Vermont college advising students about private matters and offering the "Jewish perspective" on issues raised at faculty dinner parties. Deeply lonely and on the edge of losing her faith, she comes into possession of a Torah, the last relic of Czechowa, a village of Polish Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis. With the Torah, the unquiet spirits of the village dead begin to visit Rebecca. On one visit they leave a manuscript written in Hebrew and titled My Life, an autobiography by God who, like any eager author, is seeking a sympathetic reader. No one has ever finished reading the manuscript, including Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Maimonides, and Augustine. God thinks Rebecca will. Rebecca's life is further complicated when one of her advisees-a troubled young woman who seemed on the verge of confessing something-is found murdered. As the college struggles to comprehend the tragedy and a police investigation is launched, Rebecca begins reading, and so comes to confront the central challenge to her faith in His most troubling and unlikely incarnation. Julius Lester's first adult novel in more than a decade, The Autobiography of God marks the return of an utterly original and provocative voice in American letters, addressing religion with wicked humor and profound reverence.