A friend’s public execution triggers an ambitious look at the breakup of the modern Arab world.
On a series of solitary walks around London, a woman recalls the rivers she’s encountered in pros...
The lives of an aging painter and his doppelganger converge and diverge in an elegiac meditation ...
Janet Malcolm meets The Empathy Exams, in a genre-bending work on how we understand the tr...
Shirley Jackson meetsI The Virgin SuicidesI , set at an all-girls orphanage.
A celebrated debut that animates the strange wonders of childhood in rural Poland, longlisted for...
Wry, intimate, and startlingly imaginative, the stories in this debut bring a sharpness, and a st...
A recently bereaved woman takes walks in an Italian village, reflecting on loss and the Italy of ...
Speculative essays that probe the mythology of the face by the author of The Old Drift