Women and men driven to extremes enliven these sharp, ironic, beautifully written stories, a bravura performance. In the nightmarishly funny ``The Rustler,'' an American archeologist driving alone at night in Mexico is wrongly charged with murder and...
In Daniel Curley's stories, passionate rage and cool, clear hatred alter the terms of even the most basic human relationships, etching odd patterns on the surface of the natural world--a man applies the methods of Mata-Hari to the task of keeping...