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Taste is a short story by Roald Dahl that was first published in the March 1945 issue of Ladies Home Journal. It was also published in 1951 in The New Yorker. Six people sit at a table in the home of Mike Schofield, a...

One cold morning in January 1967, in the midst of the civil war in Guatemala, a Jewish and Lebanese businessman is kidnapped in a dead end street in the capital. Nobody ignores that Guatemala is a surrealist country, he had affirmed years before. The...

Jay McInerney's two most charismatic characters return to present the social and moral complexity of New York City. In The Good Life, Cameron unveils a story of desires, family, love, and of a conflicting and catastrophic loss, giving birth to his most powerful and searing...

Sándor Lester is exiled in a cold European city where he leads a lonely and monotonous life. He is immersed in an alienating routine at the factory where he works, he spends his free time writing, hanging out with people in the same situation...

"The Wayward Bus" is John Steinbeck's masterpiece about the losers of the American dream. John Steinbeck wrote this novel just after his huge success "The Grapes of Wrath". It narrates the eventful journey of a rural bus between the towns of Rebel Corners and...

"The Outstanding Student" brings together three small masterpieces by Joseph Roth, with a prologue by Friderike Zweig. “Under the influence of alcohol he was a cheerful and optimistic man, capable of completing the most brilliant and precise tasks, and thus he filled page after...

Hidden passages, fascinating tapestries, gigantic butterflies, a mystical exodus to the prehistory of a family. A kaleidoscopic world from which we emerge as if returning from a strange pilgrimage, moved and transformed. "The Left Wing" is the volume that opens "Blinder", the monumental trilogy...

As he maps the fault lines spreading through the once-impenetrable marriage of Russell and Corrine Calloway and chronicles Russell's wildly ambitious scheme to seize control of the publishing house at which he works, Jay McInerney creates an elegy for New York in the 1980s....

Three women, tangled in an ancient curse. When Clytemnestra marries Agamemnon, she ignores the insidious whispers about his family line, the House of Atreus. But when, on the eve of the Trojan War, Agamemnon betrays Clytemnestra in the most unimaginable way, she must confront...

This is a book about the body. A body that loves and is loved. A body that is also abused, violated through sex and childbirth, abortion and blood, filth.Non-artistic materials in the hands of a painter who writes, a writer who watches. The eel...

Illustrated book that explains through a girl, the experience of prolonged breastfeeding and shared breastfeeding.

Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore’s defense of common sense, this much discussed volume collects Wittgenstein’s reflections on knowledge and certainty, on what it is to know a proposition for sure.

In this brilliant novel there are three losses and three searches. English writer Aliza Abravanel tries, in battle with aphasia, to finish her book. A last indigenous speaker is confronted with the disappearance of his culture and his language while an anthropologist fights to...

What if a void suddenly opened up in your life? This is the question Laura Freudenthaler pursues in her second novel Ghost Story, In her gap year, that she meant to spend playing piano and writing textbooks, Anne is thrown off track, One by...

William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is a simple, exceptional story about quests—for riches, revenge, power, and, of course, true love—that's thrilling and timeless… Anyone who lived through the 1980s may find it impossible—inconceivable, even—to equate The Princess Bride with anything other than the sweet,...

***Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Time, The Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Parade, Goodreads, Fortune, and BBC*** Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel...

The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend’s family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the...

When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as...

When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they’ll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl. But that relief doesn’t last, and Cam is forced to move in with her conservative...

Missy Carmichael's life has become small. Grieving for a family she has lost or lost touch with, she's haunted by the echoes of her footsteps in her empty home; the sound of the radio in the dark; the tick-tick-tick of the watching clock. Spiky...