From the acclaimed author of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Lovers comes a tensely drawn, spellbinding literary thriller that gets to the heart of what defines us as human beings — the singular identity we create for ourselves in...
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The editor-in-chief of French Elle, Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a stroke that resulted in locked-in syndrome when he was 43 years old. He died just two days after the French publication of his...
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young children, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of...
In 2007, a New York attorney bumps into an old college buddy — and accepts his friend’s offer of a job in Dubai, as the overseer of an enormous family fortune. Haunted by the collapse of his relationship and hoping for a fresh start, our strange...
Winner of the 2018 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction
The 14 stories of The Dogs of Detroit each focus on grief and its many strange permutations. This grief alternately devolves into violence, silence, solitude, and utter isolation....
When a dead woman is discovered in Abu Al Roos, one of Mecca's many alleys, no one will claim the body because they are ashamed by her nakedness. As we follow Detective Nassir's investigation of the case, the secret life of the holy city of Mecca is...
The autobiographical confession of a conspirator in the assassination of John F. Kennedy and victim of government mind control? A knowing satire of conspiracy kook literature by the prankster co-founder of Discordianism and modern paganism? Kerry...
A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador.
Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning home to El Salvador. But is it really...
In his final years, Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz distilled his storyteller's art to its most essential level. Written with the compression and power of dreams, these poetic vignettes, originally collected in two books, The Dreams and...
Time Out New York's #1 Best Book of 2008.
"[A] funny, inquisitive novel [that] asks readers to re-examine their ideas of the Western frontier and personal freedom." — Jeffrey Trachtenberg, Wall Street Journal
"May be the most...