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Erin is 19. She's never really left England, but she has watched Bear Grylls and wonders why it's always men who get to go on all the cool wilderne...

It's a hot 4th of July night in New York City. In the darkness of the Bronx, thousands of boys have gathered from all across the city. Among them a...

The Institut Benjamenta: a school of humility for the unambitious. The young Jakob von Gunten arrives at this most curious of educational establish...

Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith Aimee Joubert is a drop-dead gorgeous femme fatale with a penchant for bloody murder. Ever on the lookout for ...

In the autumn of 1959, a white Texan journalist named John Howard Griffin travelled across the Deep South of the United States disguised as a worki...

In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a...

Translated by Christine Schwartz Hartley Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to kill his girlfriend Germaine. He's planned the crime...

Translated by George Szirtes and John Batki A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the...

Translated by George Szirtes A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prom...

Eileen Myles' work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral. At once intimate and open-hearted, her poems are a...

Translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virt...

It begins in a bar, like so many strange stories. The gods Hermes and Apollo argue about what would happen if animals had human intelligence, so th...

A window into a life of insatiable desire and uninhibited sex - this is Parisian art critic Catherine M.'s account of her sexual awakening and her ...

translated by Margaret Jull Costa The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fern...

translated by Edith Grossman October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madr...

At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into a bookshop in Greenwich Village and decided to spend her last 99 cents on a nove...

translated by Joachim Neugroschel Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. By night she trawls the city's porn shows while her ...

Each of these twelve stories is a complete world, where ordinary lives are transformed, myths bloom into reality and the everyday is haunted by obs...

translated by John Bester In Oe's masterpiece of the human condition and family psychology, estranged brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi have long si...

translated by Camilo A. Ramirez On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered by a man named James Earl Ray. Before Ray's capture and sentenc...

'Chip told us not to go out. Said, don't you boys tempt the devil. But it been one brawl of a night, I tell you.' The aftermath of the fall of Pari...

Aron's story of her intense, toxic affair with drug addict K is gripping, poetic and darkly amusing. But alongside the late nights and broken promi...

translated by Lizzie Buehler Yona has been stuck behind a desk for years working as a programming coordinator for Jungle, a travel company speciali...

When her father becomes gravely ill on holiday in Budapest, Alexandra Fuller rushes to join her mother at his bedside, where they see out his last ...

Ann-Marie's life has collapsed, and she's blaming everyone but herself. Twenty-three, heartbroken, skint and furious, she's convinced that love - s...

translated by Margaret Sayers Peden Swearing to his dying mother that he'll find the father he has never met, a certain Pedro Páramo, Juan Preciado...

translated by Nick Caistor The Argentine army's "Dirty War" disappeared 30,000 people, and the last thing Pepe Carvalho wants is to investigate one...

What is the shape of a life? Is it the things that happen to us? Or is it the stories we tell about the things that happen to us? From the coast of...

'I don't know why I behaved the way I did, and I kept doing it; he kept doing it. And though I might once have easily brushed it away, suddenly I c...

When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black--an eleven year-old field slave--finds himself selected as...

In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms their life into a work of art. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and s...

Translated by Ottilie Mulzet Beauty, in László Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred--even if we are mostly unable to b...

Translated by George Szirtes War and War begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked and robbed b...

Translated by John Batki and George Szirtes In The Last Wolf, a philosophy professor is mistakenly hired to write the true tale of the last wolf of...

The year is 1792 and Herbert Powyss is set on making his name as a scientist. He is determined to study the effects of prolonged solitude on anothe...

Robert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with...

Before television and radio, before penny paperback and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell s...

All These Wonders features The Moth's customary variety of voices. Storytellers range from Suzi Ronson (who styled David Bowie's hair into Ziggy St...

In her provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and f...

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowi...

It's the tail-end of 1986 and Baby is the freshest-faced, starriest-eyed young homo in all of New York City, straight off the bus from closeted bac...

When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, ...

It's Summer, 1991, the dawning of the New World Order; a post-MTV, pre-AOL generation. Jerome Shafir and Sylvie Green, two former New Yorkers who c...