“One of Russia’s most interesting young novelists takes on Putin, poison and power in this unique novel; Lebedev provides a fascinating window on modern Russia.”
— Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Twilight of Democracy
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An actress running from her past finds escape with a man hiding from his future.
When someone wants to be lost, a home tucked among the Ten Thousand Islands off the Florida coast is a good place to live. A couple decent boats, and a deep knowledge...
Darcey Steinke's first novel, now back in print, is an unusually assured and lyrical debut. Set on an island resort town off North Carolina, it tells of summer people and islanders, mothers and sons, women and men, love and its dangers. It is the...
Praise for Lincoln Michel:
"Lincoln Michel is one of contemporary literary culture's greatest natural resources." — Justin Taylor, Vice
"Weird, darkly funny stories…Michel ably handles modes from lyrical to ironic.” — New York...
In a series of mock lesson plans and a "program of study" Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking exposé of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to...
A stranger takes over a role in a play, leaving the rest of the cast to ponder his motives.
Two minutes into the second act, there is a knock on Nicolas Boehlmer’s dressing-room door, just as he’s smoking his last cigarette before...
Fogwill se pregunta en todas sus novelas sobre el amor. `Urbana` no es una excepci?n. La historia se desarrolla en la soledad de una ciudad. El amor produce, seg?n Fogwill, un bienestar estomacal y neurol?gico que se traduce en una armon?a del...
A husband wakes up to find that his wife has had a seizure during the night. The husband calls an ambulance and his wife is rushed to a hospital where she lies in a coma. By day, the husband sits beside his wife and tries to think of ways to wake...
David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his enormously popular New York Times bestseller, One Day, to a compellingly human, deftly funny new novel about what holds marriages and families together — and what happens, and what...