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What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) for Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France. What...

The most ferociously political and prophetic book of Burroughs' "cut-up" trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space the better to see our burning planet and the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. As the new edition demonstrates, the shortest...

One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, nineteen-year-old Paul comes home from university and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. There he’s partnered with Susan Macleod, a fine player who’s forty-eight, confident, witty, and married,...

Baricco reflects on the narratives and tries to unravel their mysteries. What is its final sense and its internal mechanics? The narrative has something of a hieroglyph and something of a map. Its alchemy emerges in the elusive and enigmatic borders between magic and...

Martin, a 76-year-old retired lawyer, is diagnosed with a terminal illness and must decide how to make the most of the time he has left and what kind of legacy he wants to leave to his loved ones.

A logbook to face life in a new way. An answer to the pandemic through writing… And suddenly a microscopic virus changed everything. The situation has led J.A. González Sainz to rethink his way of facing his day to day, to meditate and rebuild...

Veronica is late, Veronica is inexplicably late, and the book goes on until she comes back or until Julián is sure she won't come back. Towards the end, Julián wants to write and not be written, but to wait is to allow himself to...

Andrew O’Hagan presents reports exploring the idea of identity on the Internet―true, false, and in between―where your virtual self takes on a life of its own outside of reality. These fascinating pieces take us to the weirder fringes of life in a digital world...

It may well be that Keith Nearing is experiencing the summer of a lifetime. He is twenty years old, and his girlfriend Lily, after three months of freedom to experience other customs and other bodies, has come back to spend the holidays with him...

The Zone of Interest is a love story with a violently unromantic setting. Powered by both wit and compassion, in characteristically vivid prose, Martin Amis’s unforgettable new novel thoroughly discusses the depth and contradictions of the human soul. / Novela polémica de incómodos planteamientos que...

Reader Laboratory is just a book, but it includes all kinds of experiments, as in some authentic "gathered games": to check the amplitude of ocular fixing, to discover the automatisms of the brain, to be aware of the inferences we make. If you like...

Laetitia Perrais was eighteen years old when she was raped, murdered, and dismembered on the night of January 18, 2011. The crime reached the newspapers and shocked France. Then president Nicolas Sarkozy pointed at the judges, because the murderer had accumulated a long history...

By chance a man and a woman who had a past together meet in a bar in New Orleans; a boy marked by the death of his father begins adult life; a fifty-year-old gay man waits in a hotel lobby for his elderly father;...

Once, the economy was governed by demand. It produced what was necessary. Now it is dictated by what’s on offer: it creates the necessity within the public for what is produced. We suffer, therefore, from an insatiable anxiety, because we are constantly convinced that...

Tom Sawyer is an orphan who lives with his aunt. He has exciting adventures with his friends playing pirates, fishing, going on night excursions, or even faking his death to attend his own funeral. But everything goes dark when Tom witnesses a murder and...

From the self-illustrated, unpublished work written in 1947 to hardboiled contributions to 1980s adult magazines, The Bells Tolls for No One presents the entire range of Bukowski's talent as a short story writer, from straight-up genre stories to postmodern blurring of fact and fiction. / Inéditos...

Evie Boyd, a lonely teenager, sees a group of girls in the park and is immediately caught by their freedom. Evie doesn't realize she's coming closer to unthinkable violence. / En el norte de California, durante el violento final de la década de 1960,...

Women who set themselves on fire to protest against domestic violence, distressed teenagers, friends till death do them apart, street children, young women bored with their partners, black magic, and superstition in northern Argentina. A work that is classic and contemporary at once. /...

This is the story of two people who get involved in Michka's, an aging lady, last wish: to find the marriage that, during the years of the German occupation, saved her from dying in an extermination camp by welcoming her and hiding her in...

From the landing of Aeneas to the rebellion of Spartacus, from Romulus and Remus to the famous fire in Nero's time, this anthology brings us closer to a world populated by heroes, emperors, slaves and other real and legendary characters who have fascinated younger...