POND
"A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut ... Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. ... [It]reminds us that small things...
CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS
NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES - From the New York Times bestselling author of Normal People . . . "[A] cult-hit . . . [a] sharply realistic comedy of...
MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews,...
Literature
SUNFLOWER CAST A SPELL TO SAVE US FROM THE VOID
Written by Wang, Jackie
Jackie Wang's magnetic and spellbinding debut collection of poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams.
WHALEBONE THEATRE
Written by Quinn, Joanna
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK - A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre made of whalebones to covert operations during World War II--a story of love, family, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation. "Absolute aces...Quinn's imagination and adventuresome spirit are a p
FRENCH PROSE POEM: AN ANTHOLOGY
The first English-language collection of its kind, this anthology offers an overview of the past and present history of a long-underappreciated--and now quickly burgeoning--poetic tradition. For decades, the prose poem has variously delighted, confounded, and incensed readers and critics.
SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET
Written by Manchette, Jean-Patrick
Eugéne Tarpon, the private-eye protagonist from Manchette's No Room at the Morgue, appears once more for a characteristically brisk and brutal story full of unexpected comedy and feeling. Sex, drugs, and . . . murder.
SKIN OF DREAMS
Written by Queneau, Raymond
In this delightful, cinema-inspired daydream of a novel, an identity-shifting protagonist uses the everyday inspirations of his life to catapult himself into the realm of imagination, blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy. The Skin of Dreams is a novel of waking dreams. Even as he lives his life, Jacques L'Aumône, its hero, daydreams a hundred other possible lives.
FIRE WITHIN
Written by Drieu La Rochelle, Pierre
Adapted to film by both Louis Malle and Joachim Trier, this heart-rending and tenderly wrought novel narrates the decline of an artist and heroin addict in 1920s Paris. Pierre Drieu la Rochelle might be said to be both the Hemingway and the Fitzgerald of twentieth-century French literature, a battle-scarred veteran of the First World War whose work chronicles the trials and tribulations
OUR PHILOSOPHER
Written by Hofmann, Gert
A powerful novel about prejudice, violence, and complicity in Nazi Germany, this spare and evocative work interrogates shows how a group of people can slip towards extremism and barbarity in the blink of an eye. "O, it has happened little by little, as many things simply happen little by little, Mother said, and told us everything about Herr Veilchenfeld, as far as it was known to he
GOLDEN POT: AND OTHER TALES OF THE UNCANNY
Written by Hoffmann, E T a
Macabre and fantastical, Hoffmann's wildly imaginative tales offer an unflinching view of human nature and sing clearer than ever in a masterful new translation Whether a surrealist exploration of the anxieties surrounding automation, or a mystery concerning a goldsmith, missing jewels, and a spate of murders, each tale in this collection reveals the complexities of human desire and fea
SPECTRE OF ALEXANDER WOLF
Written by Gazdanov, Gaito
Of all my memories, of all my life's innumerable sensations, the most onerous was that of the single murder I had committed.'
UNHAPPINESS OF BEING A SINGLE MAN: ESSENTIAL STORIES
Written by Kafka, Franz
The best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers No one has captured the modern experience, its wild dreams, strange joys, its neuroses and boredom, better than Franz Kafka. His vision, with its absurdity and twisted humour, has lost none of its force or relevance today.
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