Night People

by Barry Gifford

“Night People is the work of a talented writer with a strange and original way of looking at the world. . . . The…

Night Train to Lisbon

by Pascal Mercier

“Rich, dense, star-spangled . . . The novels of Robert Stone come to mind, and Elias Canetti’s Auto-da-Fe, and Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice,…

by Thomas Glavinic

“[An] extraordinary apocalyptic novel . . . Glavinic creates a more subtle if no less nightmarish mood than such similar books as The Day of…

by Kenzaburo Oe

“An amazing achievement . . . Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids has much in common with both The Lord of the Flies and…

by Josh Weil

“Full of tenderness and looming menace . . . Gripping . . . Meticulous . . . Keep writing novellas, Josh Weil, because you…

by Henry Miller

“The Rosy Crucifixion may be Miller’s masterpiece. . . . The trilogy belongs in every American literature collection.” —Choice

by António Lobo Antunes

“The Natural Order of Things . . . reads like William Faulkner or Céline . . . gorgeous . . . bedeviled [and] lyrical…

by Ron Hansen

“Beautifully crafted stories. . . . Wickedness, evil, malice is called by name; and for Hansen’s people the snake in the garden never fails…

by Andre Breton

by William S. Burroughs

“A book of great beauty . . . . Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius.”…