Winter 1836, and the "Belle of Wilmington" discharges its doomed crew on Wherrytown. Little daunted, the Captain and his sailors flirt, drink and brawl their way through the village, marooned along with Aymer Smith, a virgin and a blunderer in...
"Signs and Symbols" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in English and first published, May 15, 1948 in The New Yorker and then in Nabokov's Dozen (1958: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New...
These sixteen stories by the much-celebrated Alix Ohlin illuminate the connections between all of us — connections we choose to break, those broken for us, and those we find and make in spite of...
Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He...
"Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow...."
In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote...
From the celebrated author of The Curfew (“A spare masterwork of dystopian fiction” —The New York Times Book Review), Jesse Ball’s Silence Once Begun is an astonishing novel of unjust conviction, lost love, and a journalist’s obsession.
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There’s been a public disaster, and someone wants to sweep it under the rug. A journalist is asking questions, and she stumbles across another story, from several years ago. Any connection seems like pure speculation – but then her family is...
Ganadora del XVIII Premio La Sonrisa Vertical, en 1996. Hector es un maduro y solitario profesor de piano, es, ademas, un maestro de la transfiguracion erotica que le lleva a recrear criaturas que, en ocasiones, forman parte de la realidad, como...
Ganadora del XVIII Premio La Sonrisa Vertical, en 1996. Hector es un maduro y solitario profesor de piano, es, ademas, un maestro de la transfiguracion erotica que le lleva a recrear criaturas que, en ocasiones, forman parte de la realidad, como...