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Juan Rulfo

Juan Rulfo was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer, and is best known for two literary works, El Llano en llamas (1953), a collection of short stories, and the 1955…

The Louvre

by James Gardner

The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into…

Weight

by Jeanette Winterson

Condemned to shoulder the world, for ever, by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man…

Christmas Days

by Jeanette Winterson

A transporting new collection of Christmas stories from “one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time” (Elle), master storyteller Jeanette Winterson….

Second Violin

by John Lawton

“Smart and gracefully written . . . It has been Lawton’s achievement to capture, in first-rate popular fiction, the courage and drama—and the widespread tomorrow-we-may-die exuberance—of that terrible and thrilling…

The Passion

by Jeanette Winterson

This arresting, elegant novel uses Napolean’s Europe as the setting for a tantalizing surrealistic romance between an observer of history and a creature of fantasy….

Love for Sale

by Nils Johan Ringdal

“Contains enough scholarly detail to allow one to employ the “I read Playboy for the articles’ defense.” –Jared Paul Stern, New York Post…

The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad

by Roger Boylan

“Boylan’s narrative resembles Joyce at his comically prolix best, with a similar appetite for vernacular nuance and pop allusion.” –The Village Voice…

For a Handful of Feathers

by Guy de la Valdéne

“Beautifully conceived and written, valuable for its insight into quail behavior and its thoughtful address of hunting ethics, a new classic for the sportsman’s canon.” –Kirkus Reviews…

The Daylight Gate

by Jeanette Winterson

“More than a shivery treat . . . [the novel] touches on nearly every aspect of witchcraft, both historical and imaginative . . . sober, precise, and solemnly beautiful ….