When Dr. Leo Liebenstein’s wife disappears, she leaves behind a single, confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves exactly like her — or almost exactly like her — and even audaciously claims to be her. While everyone else is...
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her...
"Andrés Barba needs no introduction. He has his own intentional world perfectly contained and a literary gift that belies his age." — Mario Vargas Llosa
"A story that has been described as an explosive clash between Pavese's The Beautiful...
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag...
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life,...
In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Edouard Levé hides nothing from his readers, setting out his entire life, more or less at random, in a string of declarative sentences. Autoportrait is a physical, psychological, sexual,...
This collection of reflective essays forms a “spiritual autobiography” of AndréGide, a key figure of French letters
André Gide, a literary and intellectual giant of twentieth-century France, mines...
Autumn...
Autumn of the...