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Omega Minor by Paul Verhaeghen
 "This is, after all, the century of the illusion of knowledge. We firmly believe that the world in which we live is ultimately comprehensible." The setting is Berlin in 1995, and the speaker, Auschwitz survivor Jozef de Heer, is reflecting on the 20th century from the vantage of man who witnessed...
Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, the Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound by Paul Drummond
 The 13th Floor Elevators, a little known group that broke up forty years ago, might seem ill-suited as the subject of a 400-page book, yet the legendary psychedelic band from Austin, Texas is well worth this exhaustive treatment. Paul Drummond's Eye Mind, the new, definitive biography of the...
The Stone Keeper: Amulet, Book One (Amulet #01) by Kazu Kibuishi
 Since Jeff Smith's Bone, few graphic novels have truly captured the imagination of an all-ages audience. It's a difficult task, satisfying the curiosities of youth while pandering to the expectations of adults. Fortunately, Kazu Kibuishi, creator of Daisy Kutter and editor of the acclaimed Flight...
American Music by Chris Martin
 With this lively debut collection Chris Martin establishes himself as a young poet with an arresting voice. American Music is a series of light-stepping meditations on city life that manage to be both profound and playful, with an unpretentious freshness that sets it apart from the usual hipster-in-...
Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean Paul Sartre
 Thirteen years ago in a New York Times book review, Anthony Gottlieb wrote "It is almost as if Sartre the philosopher had never existed." Since then, the Times has supported this assertion: its only examination of Sartre since 1994 focused on the philosopher's love life, comparing him to "Hugh...
What's the Use of Truth? by Richard Rorty
 Of all the abstract nouns regularly encountered -- beauty, goodness, reality -- Truth with a capital T seems most essential to the act of living. If you want to elicit a wildly incredulous response from someone, try suggesting that you don't believe in Truth: not that you doubt the truth of a given ...
Shining at the Bottom of the Sea by Stephen Marche
 Stephen Marche demanded much of Raymond and Hannah's titular characters, and got it. Spectacularly together just six days before fate wrenches them 6,000 miles apart, the couple finds their newly-mismatched paradigms make for lousy long-distance pillow talk: she's immersed in Torah school in...
Laura Warholic: Or the Sexual Intellectual by Alexander Theroux
 Alexander Theroux's new novel, released twenty years after his previous one, is a massive, 878-page compendium of vituperation against contemporary society, jabs at pop culture, exposés of office politics, and exploration of life and love in modern times. It's what you'd expect from an...
The Entire Predicament by Lucy Corin
 In Isaac Asimov's novelization of Fantastic Voyage, a miniaturized submarine navigates a dying body. When the oxygen supply is sabotaged, the crew members discover that they cannot harvest air from the lungs of their host, as the oxygen molecules are too large to absorb into their own tiny...
Fourth Realm Trilogy #02: The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks
 It's hardly surprising that Random House hyped John Twelve Hawks's first novel so hard -- The Traveler, released in 2005, goes down like meth's nutritious, G-rated cousin, or, for those not into snorting fiction, the literary equivalent of oysters. Plus, even though there's nothing in the book that ...
Brave Story
by Miyuki Miyabe
Regards from Serbia
by Aleksandar Zograf
8: A Memoir
by Amy Fusselman
Varieties of Disturbance: Stories
by Lydia Davis
The Salon
by Nick Bertozzi
John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes
by John Peel
Allah Is Not Obliged
by Ahmadou Kourouma
The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization
by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World's Most Troubled Drug Culture
by Richard J. Degrandpre
Fangland
by John Marks
Trial of Flowers
by Jay Lake
Glacial Period
by Nicolas De Crecy
The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science, Imagination and Spirit
by Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna
The Uncomfortable Dead: A Novel of Four Hands
by Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Subcomandante Marcos
Academic Freedom After September 11
by Beshara Doumani
The Flowers of Evil (Wesleyan Poetry)
by Charles Baudelaire
The Mystery Guest: An Account
by Gregoire Bouillier
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