The late National Book Award-winning author offers a collection of short stories that reflects society's follies and foibles--including, "At the Tolstoy Museum," "Sentence," and "Porcupines at the University&q...

Barthelme’s last book, published posthumously, is a novel composed in dialogue in which King Arthur finds himself battling against the Nazis in World War II. Arthur simultaneously prepares his son Mordred for the duties of rulin...