The Pygmalion myth recast by one of America’s boldest and most bewitching storytellers.
Anna Graham has one ambition — to be a great actress. The only problem is, she can’t stop being herself. She is proud, stubborn, and moody; according...
A toxic mist rips across a secretive Israeli dig site, leaving Cy Reed's excavation in ruins. As dozens of people perish, a lethal artifact goes missing.
Tormented by his father's legacy, Reed stages a daring recovery operation. At the...
Sol controlled the mountain and Sos the Empire. Two worlds so completely different from each other that they could not exist together on the same planet. There had to be war...
Var was the chosen one. Half man, half animal, a mutant victim of...
Unmistakably the work of César Aira, Varamo is about the day in the life of a hapless government employee who, after wandering around all night after being paid by the Ministry in counterfeit money, eventually writes the most celebrated...
Benson Fisher thought a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life.
He was wrong.
Now he’s trapped in a school that’s surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every...
The first offering by new author Fox J. Wilde, and the first novel of it’s kind.
It’s 1981 and an underground punk rock scene has taken root in Eastern Germany, behind the Berlin Wall. Lena Schindler, one of the up-and-coming vocalists of...
Lydia Davis has been called “one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction” (Los Angeles Times), “an American virtuoso of the short story form” (Salon), an innovator who attempts “to remake the model of the modern short story”...
Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The irreducible complexity of...