A literary companion to the 2006 World Cup of soccer provides a colorful look at the countries, teams, and players at the latest competition, in a collection that includes essays by Roddy Doyle, Zadie Smith, Caryl Phillips, James Surowiecki, Robert Coover, Aleksandar Hemon, John Lanchester, Tom Vanderbilt, and William Finnegan, among others. Original. 50,000 first printing.

Product Description: See America with 50 of Our Finest, Funniest, and Foremost Writers Anthony Bourdain chases the fumigation truck in Bergen County, New Jersey Dave Eggers tells it straight: Illinois is Number 1 Louise Erdrich loses her bikini top in North Dakota Jonathan Franzen gets waylaid by New York's publicist...read more

Product Description: Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations are offered in Granta 85—an issue that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war. With Diana Athill on losing her baby, Amit Chaudhuri on the Indian tailor who became the face of a riot, Giles Foden on the origins of "The African Queen," plus new fiction by T...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Fiction. Cultural Writing. Edited by Thomas Frank, featuring work by Paul Maliszewski, Ben Metcalf, Dan Kelly, T.C. Frank, Josh Glenn & A.S. hamrah, Marc Cooper, Kim Phillips-Fein, Kevin Mattson, Doug Henwood, Tom Vanderbilt, Mike O'Flaherty, Robert Nedelkoff, Michael Berube, Chris Lehmann, Mike Albo, Curtis White, Stephen Rodefer, John Tranter, Douglas Rothschild, Lisa Haney, Jessica Abel, Patrick Welch, David Berman, and Hunter Kennedy...read more

Gathers articles from The Baffler magazine which offer criticism of the new American cultural order such as the rise of 'alternative' culture