Mexico

MexicoBy: Josh Barkan The unforgettable characters in Josh Barkans astonishing and beautiful story collectionchef, architect, nurse, high school teacher, painter, beauty queen, classical bass player, plastic surgeon, businessman, mimeare simply trying to lead their lives and steer clear of violence. Yet, inevitably, crime has a way of intruding on their lives all the same. A surgeon finds himself forced into performing a risky procedure on a narco killer. A

Stephen Cartwright

Llama has cooked up something really devious—an idea

Make No Small Plans shows that anyone can think big and—with a thirst for knowledge

with the cardboard cover and the shiny gold-foil spine

with a place to call home

delicate and burning with emotion

Learn what kind of jewelry and pottery the Canaanites traded with Egypt and see armor from ancient Assyria

just as someone else wins hers

In his translation of Paradise

Small favors

Do aliens exist

"Isadora's pictures move and sway like a Caribbean breeze