The LexiconThis boon to logophiles, culled from Buckley: The Right Word, presents the authors most erudite, outr, and interesting words from prehensile and sciolist to rubric and histrionic complete with definitions, examples, and usage notes. Introduction by Jesse Sheidlower; illustrations by Arnold Roth.

and maintain a balanced mood

A petite woman—”90 pounds soaking wet”—who threw a 200-pound Lutheran deacon across the room to the horror of onlookers in a church hall

and medical technicians who discovered the microbes and invented the vaccines to counter them

As Bandini experiences both minor successes and significant failures

Tonto and his family undertake an Easter pilgrimage to the Moorings

and a frightening new drug to spur on its growing army to unprecedented extremes of violence

by not only freeing him from prison but also—finally—the curse of his past

and a humanitarian aid group whose intentions are far from innocent

Here is a generous selection of the work that has earned Just his reputation as \"one of the most astute writers of American fiction

have their hands full with the angry

reluctantly agrees

haunted by the fear that she has inherited the madness that possessed her father