Chromos is one of the true masterpieces of post-World War II fiction. Written in the 1940s but left unpublished until 1990, it anticipated the fictional inventiveness of t...
At the heart of this book is the revolutionary idea that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution. Rather, Jaynes presents consciousness as a learned...
A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland’s most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language,...
In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primaril...
A groundbreaking translation of the epic work of one of the great minds of the nineteenth century.
Giacomo Leopardi was the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth cent...
Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions.
Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start...
From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the ex...
A very tall man resumes his search for a kidnaped child long after the unsolved case has been officially closed. Hind dropped his search when he married. Now, some years l...
A dazzling fourth novel by the author of The Recognitions, Carpenter's Gothic, and JR uses his considerable powers of observation and satirical sensibilities to take on th...
One of the acknowledged masterpieces of Mexican literature, Fernando del Paso's News from the Empire is a powerful and encyclopedic novel of the tragic lives of Maximilian...
Even after the world and humanity itself have been rendered nearly unrecognizable by genetic engineering, a day in the office can feel… Sisyphean.
The company stands at...
Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenters’ The Thing.
Two men while away the days ...
An uninvited guest, entering the empty New York apartment of a man known to intimates as "Dom," proceeds to write for his absent host a curious confession. Its close accou...
A great masterpiece by William Gaddis, with a new introduction by Rick Moody.
Winner of the 1976 National Book Award, J R is a biting satire about the many ways in which...
The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutiae of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. He...
In "The Making of Americans," Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vi...
The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Eliza...
»Tatsachenphantasie« hat Döblin vom modernen Roman gefordert. Und wenn es in der literarischen Moderne einen Roman gibt, der von einer entfesselten, grenzenlosen Tatsachen...
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В тридцать с лишним лет переехав в Нью-Йорк по причине романтических отношений, Оливия Лэнг в итоге оказалась одна в огромном чужом городе. Этот наипостыднейший жизненный ...