Serve the People!

by Yan Lianke

Banned in China, Serve the People! is the sexy, satirical sensation chronicling a love affair between the wife of a powerful Communist army commander and her…

Sewer, Gas & Electric

by Matt Ruff

“Ruff is a protean talent. . . . Very much in the absurdist tradition of Pynchon, Heller, Robbins, and Vonnegut, this is a mad…

The Sex Offender

by Matthew Stadler

“Equal parts Kafka, Burgess, and Brazil, Matthew Stadler’s novel is beautifully morbid. The eloquent, florid prose in which Mr. Uh Uh describes his passions…

Sexing the Cherry

by Jeanette Winterson

“Sexing the Cherry is a dangerous jewel . . . a mixture of The Arabian Nights touched by the philosophical form of Milan Kundera…

The Secret River

by Kate Grenville

“Magnificent . . . an unflinching exploration of modern Australia’s origins. . . . Grenville’s psychological acuity, and the sheer gorgeousness of her descriptions…

See What I Have Done

by Sarah Schmidt

Praised by Paula Hawkins as the “next great thriller” (Town & Country), Sarah Schmidt’s debut is a masterful reimagining of the infamous Lizzie Borden…

The Selected Works of Samuel Beckett

by Samuel Beckett

“Beckett’s writings constitute probably the most significant body of work produced by a twentieth-century author, in that they’re taken to signify the greatest number…

Self-Portrait With Woman

by Andrzej Szczypiorski

“In Polish novelist Andrzej Szczypiorski’s radiant new work, the affairs of the heart and the world are not so very different. . . ….

Secessia

by Kent Wascom

From the immensely talented author of The Blood of Heaven, compared by reviewers to Faulkner, O’Connor, and McCarthy, comes a gothic portrait of a…

Second Marriage

by Frederick Barthelme

“The whole book is like an interesting and just barely believable dream–one of those dreams that’s sexy, anxious, promising, and threatening at the same…

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