ImperialFrom the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican American border a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves and labor camps of Southeastern California, right across the border into Mexico.

Ben-Oni's poems are precisely crafted

and drawings—with new texts by King and extensive original interviews with Arthur’s collaborators

Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents

Robert Aickman

after endlessly agonizing about matters of form and style

And what she recounts is harrowing

The father is the unlikeliest of fathers

Some curling to corners

Stories from the Center of the World gathers new writing from the greater Middle East (or SWANA)

Davis provides a dazzling update on the city’s current status

Djuna Barnes

and cares little for anything but her pleasure