The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering — illness, regret, mourning, sympathy — in the most unusual of ways. In “Stab,” a bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can...
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It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved...
A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser’s first book, “Fritz Kocher’s Essays,” the complete...
White Oleander is a 1999 novel by American author Janet Fitch. It is a coming-of-age story about a child (Astrid) who is separated from her mother (Ingrid) and placed in a series of foster homes. The book was a selection by Oprah’s Book Club in...
The Brothers...
Избранные тексты «великого и ужасного» Хантера С. Томпсона. Шедевры гонзо-журналистики. Хроники измененного сознания… вот только –...
Sketches New and...
“I love Murderbot!”
—Ann Leckie
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s hugely popular science fiction action and adventure All Systems Red
It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. A past...
Time and Time...