At last a new book: a baker’s dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt’s razor-sharp genius
For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most...
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HIS FIRST NOVEL FOR GROWNUPSFrom that most dramatically dual of literary personalities, writing not in his classic “Chocolate Factory” incarnation but as the devilish Dahl of Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch — here is the ultimate adult...
How to Write a Blackwood...
“The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl” (1904) — short story by Jerome Klapka Jerome from collection titled “The Passing of the Third Floor Back: and Other...
The Return of...
A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem.
In a sunlit clearing in central Gondwana, on an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth’s first and greatest...
The Chair of...
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a...
“Absurdistan is not just a hilarious novel, but a record of a particular peak in the history of human folly. No one is more capable of dealing with the transition from the hell of socialism to the hell of capitalism in Eastern Europe than...
How many of them were there?
There were eight of them.
Eight desperate people.
What secrets did they share in common?
What could they possibly give to each other?
What horrible pressures drove them all to seek relief in the stark...