“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
—Chuck Palahniuk
Satan Burger is the international cult hit that has grown such an enormous following over the past 10 years that it not...
These 25 new short stories, written to go together and none of them previously published, mark Booker Prize-winning Graham Swift's return to the short form after 7 acclaimed novels, and affirm him as a master storyteller.
Swift's...
In a 1916 story by Heinz von Lichberg, a man falls in love with his landlady’s daughter—and her name is Lolita.
In 1955 the writer Vladimir Nabokov became world famous with the novel Lolita, the story of a stormy obsession with a nymph that...
The son of a Midwestern farmer, William Stoner comes to the University of Missouri in 1910 to study agriculture. He had intended to return home and take over his father's farm — but instead, inspired by the professor of English literature, he...
Shukshin may be an ordinary truck driver, but his delivery route demands all the poise and determination of a ship’s captain in the vice-grip of a storm. He travels a highway buried in the depths of the Siberian taiga to bring vital supplies to...
This collection of Platonov’s short fiction brings together seven works drawn from the whole of his career. It includes the harrowing novella Dzahn (“Soul”), in which a young man returns to his Asian birthplace to find his people deprived not...
18 years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman’s village far north of the polar circle to work as a school teacher. He has no interest in the job itself — or in any other job for that matter. His...
A freak accident causes two couples-a pair of Los Angeles liberals and Mexican illegal's-and their opposing worlds to collide in a tragicomedy of error and...