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So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom’s long star turn...

Dr. Michael Beard’s best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned institutions, and halfheartedly heads an initiative tackling global warming. Can a man who has made a mess of his...

No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. This book explores the insecurity behind the formidable public face: the relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animated—and undermined—her writing. Sontag is the first book based on the writer’s restricted archives....

Lisbon, 1938. In a Europe haunted by the ghost of totalitarianism, a journalist who has been dedicated to the news pages all his life is put in charge of the culture section of a mediocre newspaper. In need of a collaborator, he calls the...

A reflection on sexualities that transgress the normative, An exploration of perversion or alternative sexuality, Am I normal? asks the author, What is normality in the practice of sexuality? What is out of the normal, is it a paraphilia, a perversion, a depravity, or...

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror. In this electric, provocative debut, Machado presents narratives that map the realities of women’s lives to the violence visited upon their bodies. /...

Paris, 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the Sorbonne and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century "decadent" author. But François's own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, reads the classics....

Deville explores the history of his family and that of France and the world. Taba-Taba joins his cycle of "real novels" that he started with Pure Life.

The protagonist of this novel was born in China, grew up in Argentina, returned home and as a teenager, went to America as an interpreter for businessmen. This novel hides a story of initiation and also a story about identity and culture shock; and...

With his proverbial lucidity and the beauty of his style, Cups of Broth is the most personal work of Vicente Verdú and a sample of the philosophical and sociological thought that he propagates through pills. With this book, Verdú becomes the embodiment of the...

Hidden between distant cliffs, in some remote place visited by wolf hunters, bandits, ambushers, Carlists, sorceresses, maquis, rally drivers, ghosts, beasts and demons, the Clavell farmhouse clings to the earth like a tick. It is a house inhabited by women, and where a single...

Now a major motion picture. Lionel Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understand her teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of high hopes shattered by dark realities....

In this book the author traces the path of the digital insurrection. It is not a mere technological revolution, but the collapse of the paradigms of twentieth century. In just over three decades, computers, smartphones and other devices, have become essential and have changed...

All writing, even that which imitates life, is a fiction. A trick. Using this as his premise, Giralt Torrente confronts a universal theme in this intimate story: the death of his father. He reconstructs the relationship with his father, the times in life he...

Bergen, 1988. A young novelist becomes socially and literarily inept. His texts are made of clichés. After his frustrated romances he discovers love: Tonje, whom he marries and soon becomes the author he had always longed to be. / Tiene que llover arranca en...

Daniel, a successful musician, takes his father's corpse to bury him in his hometown in a hearse driven by Jairo, an Ecuadorian driver with whom he engages in a long conversation about life, remembering his past at school with friends, with whom he assembles...

September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of...

A detective trainee named Jean Eyben is commissioned by the Hutte agency, where he works, to follow the trail of a woman. The woman is named Noëlle Lefebvre, and the young investigator pursues her unsuccessfully. Thirty years later, he takes up that case on...

Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his neurological case histories and his fascination and familiarity with human behavior. Everything in Its Place is a celebration of Sacks's myriad interests, told with his characteristic compassion and erudition, and in his luminous prose. /...

Everything you ever wanted to know about zombies but were afraid to ask. An essential (and hilarious) book. ALERT, ZOMBIE INVASION! Do not panic. In this book is everything you need to know to survive a zombie attack (plus some juicy curiosities): What is...