A Professional Lola is a collection of short stories that blend literary fiction with the surreal to present the contemporary Filipino American experience and its universal themes of love, family, and identity. A family hires an actress to play their...

WINNER OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSE An epic storyteller with the most powerful voice in contemporary German...

The author of Black Snow serves up an epic novel of forbidden romance and political turmoil in early 20th-century China.

Underneath a waterfall on a remote Tasmanian mountain river, river guide Aljaz Cosini is drowning, beset by visions of his own life and those of his family and ancestors, in stories that reconnect him to the history and soul of his country. By the author...

Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music...

This is the lurid and compelling story of the sexual awakening of Maria Luisa Ruiz-Poveda y Garcia de la Casa - affectionately known by her family as Lulu. The Ages of Lulu is a marvel of intense eroticism - the sexiest book to burst onto the...

Few contemporary writers have been as prolific and wide-ranging as Jamake Highwater. From the perennially popular Myth and Sexuality and The Primal Mind to such landmark works on Native American arts as Ritual of the Wind and Songs from the Earth, to...

The French novelist offers evocative memories of his childhood and his family and discusses his own writings as well as the writings of others who have influenced him

Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally formed part of an unfinished novel. They trace the career of the first...

At dawn on the June morning in 1989 following the brutal repression of student demonstrations in Beijing, a young poet flees the bullets, tanks, and soldiers, trying desperately to get back to the flat she shares with her lover. When she discovers him in...

One of the funniest, cruelest, and most savagely revealing books about American life ever written, The Magic Christian has been called Terry Southern's masterpiece. Guy Grand is an eccentric billionaire -- the last of the big spenders -- determined to...

"One of the greatest achievements of modern literature."--Richard Howard "A major achievement ... Genet transforms experiences of degradation into spiritual exercises and hoodlums into bearers of the majesty of love."-Saturday Review "Genet can use a...

An array of New Yorkers become involved with a mom-and-pop cigar shop in Brooklyn in an acclaimed short story, presented here along with interviews with the author and the film's actors and a description of the process of creating a film. Original. Movie...

A captivating examination of artifice and reality, privacy and exposure from a Forward Prize-winning poetThe 72 poems in Kim Kardashian's Marriage mark out equally sharpened lines of public and private engagement. Kim Kardashian's 2011 marriage lasted...

Alistair Paperson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 48-49) And Index.

Sergeant Alex Jensen has his work cut out for him when he is called in to investigate the deaths of leading competitors in Alaska's famous dogsled race

When she accidentally kills her neighbor, Coventry Dakin, a suburban housewife, hides among the homeless in London, where Dodo, a bag lady, offers her help