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The Invention of Morel
What do you do when you've read Jorge Luis Borges' Collected Fictions so many times that you feel a bit like Funes the Memorious? Or when you've thoroughly digested the Argentinean master's Selecte...
Atmospheric Disturbances
Early in Rivka Galchen's debut novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, the narrator, Dr. Leo Liebenstein, explains the Doppler effect and thereby introduces the novel's extended metaphor. Leo laments that...
The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts
Given that he died more than a decade ago, Chris Farley is an unlikely subject for a new book — so call The Chris Farley Show a pleasant surprise. Edited by the late actor's older brother, Tom Farl...
The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus has been a source of controversy among linguists, writers, and frustrated English teachers since it was first published in 1852. The Man Who Made Lists reveals that it's also an e...
Fiction: Our Story Begins
Our Story Begins, Tobias Wolff's tales of stunted people making breakthroughs, includes classics from his canon as well as new stories, all of which explore characters on the brink. It almost makes...
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
"I come from a country that doesn't exist anymore." So says Aleksandar Krsmanovic by way of introduction; fleeing the war that ravaged Bosnia in the early '90s, his family has sought refuge in Germ...
Fiction: Previous Convictions
Previous Convictions demonstrates why A.A. Gill is simultaneously one of the most beloved and reviled cultural critics in England. This third collection of essays showcases the dagger-tongued autho...
Fiction: God Is Dead
In this collection's opening title story, God comes to Darfur in the form of a starving woman fleeing the Janjaweed militia. Killed, she's eventually eaten by dogs, who are then imparted with divin...
Fiction: Call Me by Your Name
André Aciman's curiously titled debut novel has it all — it's short and sweet, rich with blush-worthy sexual tension, and intellectually satisfying. Written with the contemplative breeziness of a d...
Things I have learned in my life so far
Stefan Sagmeister's Things I have learned in my life so far, a compendium of aphorisms turned into typographic experiments, is precisely what one would expect from a designer whose early claim to n...