Booth Sally Rooney Nichols's masterful verse translation of

Nichols's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy

The Colosseum

unique work of metafiction that follows a graphic novelist who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught upbringing in 1980s Chinatown

Betsuyaku Minoru

Booth Sally Rooney Nichols's masterful verse translation ofIn 1822, a stage is set: Englishman Junius Booth celebrated Shakespearean actor and man of mesmerising charm and instability moves to a remote cabin outside Baltimore with his wife, who bears him ten children. Of the six who survive infancy, one is John Wilkes the hot tempered but much loved middle son who, in 1865, fatally shoots Abraham Lincoln in a Washington theatre, changing the course of history. What makes a murderer? His family or the world?