David Samuel Levinson's dystopian vision is deeply strange in the best way, perverse and precise and teeming with life, reminiscent of George Saunders, Flannery O'Connor, Nathanael West. A comic novel firing on all cylinders, ...
A biting, hilarious literary satire of war, business, and contemporary masculinity, set in the cutthroat-but-ridiculous world of management consulting King of the Mississippi is an incisive, uproarious dissection of contemporary male vanity ...
The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself in order to survive, moving from Mussolini's fascist Italy to 1940s Hollywood--a timeless story of love, sacrifice, and deceit from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling ...
A witty, intelligent story of an American woman on the edge, by a brilliant new voice in fiction "Christine Smallwood's debut novel is that rare thing: an intellectual page-turner that commands one's attention completely from the first ...
She is acute and sophisticated about the workings of innocence; the protagonist of this novel about growing up has no idea just how much of it she has left to do.”—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker “This book. This book.
MARCH 20 2008 The future president, Presidential, addresses the waiting nation on the squawk box tonight, regarding the charges brought up by one Jeremiah Wright. We shall pause in bestowing on Mr. Wright what he believes to be his ...
To all the talented writers in my cohort: David Hoon Kim, Anthony Marra, Shannon Pufahl, Helen Hooper, Joshua Foster, Dana Kletter, Justin Perry, Nina Schloesser, Noviolet Bulawayo, Nicole Cullen, Monique Wentzel, Austin Smith, ...
A Novel Andrew Lewis Conn ... He makesthe decision walking the few blocks from the screening room back to the editing suite, recounting the shepherd girl'sfinal, silent prayer beforeburning at thestake. (“Dear God, I accept my death ...
Written with energy and wit, this is a story of the consuming power of jealousy on the one hand, and redemption and the enduring love of a lost child on the other.
And she added a fifth item to the list , a sort of bonus , which she liked to do after all the others , though this one was strictly unofficial : listen to the Alec Baldwin interview podcast . I hoped I conveyed the skepticism I felt ...
Her Grace Lady Elizabeth Stuart was the nymph of the Thames, and the Countess of Essex the nymph of the Lee, and the Viscountess Haddington the nymph of the Rother, and Venetia, just fourteen, was the nymph of the Grand Canal.
And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship and love.
And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship and love.
Featuring the razor-sharp humor and acute psychological insight that made The Dinner an international phenomenon, Summer House with Swimming Pool is a controversial, thought-provoking novel that showcases Herman Koch at his finest.
This novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight.”—The New York Times “Very Cold People reminded me of My Brilliant Friend.”—The New Yorker “My parents didn’t belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway.” For ...
These are stories about transformation and danger, passion and heartbreak, terror and triumph.
Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A young man journeys into Sri Lanka’s war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and the legacy of war from the author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. “A novel of tragic power and ...
Delve deeper into the Emmy- and Golden Globe–nominated Hulu series based on Sally Rooney's bestselling novel with this must-have collection of the Normal People scripts, featuring behind-the-scenes photos and an introduction by director ...
“The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery ...