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Porgy and Bess is both artfully daring and morally engaging, a wonderful instance of "passionate virtuosity." Here, the detective novel's obsession with the grounded rationality of evidence floats away through voices that hang gloomily together, a whole of irresolvable parts. Porgy and Bess is both the death of the detective novel and its beautiful rebirth.

A crime novel loosely based on the masses and songs of the 17th century Flemish composer Pierre de la Rue

A young man's initiation into the difficulty of life amidst the hard realities of love, waste, and failure

On the surface a murder mystery--a detective's search for the killer of five people in Denver--Expectation is also, among other things, a meditation on the relationship between language and music.

Jeffrey DeShell's "Arthouse" is an audacious transformation in prose of fourteen Modernist films.

A fierce portrait of memory, family, and regret"The Trouble with Being Born" is a stark meditation on memory and the struggle-both necessary and impossible-to remember.

S & M relentlessly questions the roles langu age and imagination play in the construction of sexual and e motional desire. The novel revolves around a lesbian relatio nship and a married university professor experimenting with sex.