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"In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noble- woman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be possessed by the Devil, who has come to them in the form of a tall headless man and gives them...

"The lapping of the waves was a lesson in mortality. Sometimes the corrective would work, and his turmoil would recede. The sound secured him, as the contemplation of a skull might make a penitent secure. And sometimes it was more than a...

"The writer M has lived in the city of B ever since her homeland declared war on a neighboring state. While in exile, she is unable to write and suffers from loneliness, shame, and despair. But then M is invited to give a reading at a literary...

A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Pedro Pramo is the otherworldly tale of one man's quest for his lost father. That man swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never...