"Here are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A housewife drinks alone in her Connecticut living room. A guillotine glimmers above a sleepy town green. A pre-recorded customer service message sends a caller into a reverie of unspeakable yearning. With the deft touch and funhouse-mirror perspectives for which he has won countless admirers, Steven Millhauser gives us the towns, marriages, and families of a quintessential American lifestyle...

From People's Republic to The Split, Kelly Turnbull has spent his life fighting freedom. Now, as the conflict between the new United States and the People's Republic drags on and Red America looks for a leader to win the war, it is clear that there are no easy answers for the divided former America.A mission into a firestorm to retrieve a lost heiress from a deadly cult turns into a horror show. Then a shocking attack on Kelly Turnbull and the people...

""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician...