Bound in Venice

Bibliophiles will delight in this portrait of Aldo Manuzio, the fifteenth-century Italian who first brought the Koran, Talmud, and classics of Greek poetry to his fair city, thereby becoming history’s first modern publisher.

Dirty Love

The author of House of Sand and Fog elegantly chronicles the tragedies and epiphanies of average Joes and Janes, in four bittersweet novellas of grace, ingenuity and intimacy.

Swept Away

November 6: “As I have already told you, this will not be a war for life, but a war till death between those who have nothing and those who own property…”