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A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer
Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment...
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
A linguist flying to a conference in Helsinki has landed in a strange city where he can't understand a word anyone says. As one claustrophobic day follows anothe...
***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD***
From the author of "Silence Once Begun", a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the ...
Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jo...
Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in the shifting landsc...
Manifest Destiny drives American expansion westward, building an early 19th-century society with genocidal brutality. This is the context that frames The Revelator's prota...
А есть ли жизнь на Марсе? Да, есть — в фантастическом романе «Сирены Титана» Курта Воннегута читатель сможет побывать не только на Марсе, но и на Меркурии и Титане вместе ...
In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and pri...
A lively and important argument from an award-winning journalist proving that the key to reversing America's health crisis lies in the overlooked link between nutrition an...
For years, entomologist Fredrik Sjöberg has collected, cataloged, and obsessed over the hoverflies that populate the remote Swedish island he calls home. As confounded by ...
Дипломат, учитель, британский пресс-атташе и шпион в Александрии Египетской, старший брат писателя-анималиста Джеральда Даррела, Лоренс Даррел (1913-1990) стал всемирно из...
«Ты — единственное существо со свободной волей! Как тебе это нравится?» — эти строки прочитал Дуэйн Гувер в романе писателя-фантаста Килгора Траута, сквозного героя произв...
Впервые на русском - предыстория "Английского пациента", удивительного бестселлера, который покорил читателей всех континентов, был отмечен самой престижной в англоязычном...
"Английский пациент" - тонкая и поэтичная история любви, удивительный бестселлер, покоривший читателей всех континентов и удостоенный как Премии генерал-губернатора (высша...
The seriously, seriously funny roller-coaster ride of sex and violence that Aleksandar Hemon has long promised
Script idea #142: Aliens undercover as cabbies abduct the...
The author of Down By the River and House of Splendid Isolation narrates the story of two siblings, brother and sister, and the dangerous newcomer would try to steal every...
Изменяющий сознание прыжок в футуристическую Америку, столь странную, столь возмутительную, что вы сразу ее распознаете.
Нил Стивенсон настолько оригинален, что не поддае...
Austin Voronkov is many things. He is an engineer, an inventor, an immigrant from Russia to Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1913, where he gets a job at a rifle factory. At th...