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Dos hermanos se enfrentan juntos a la maldad colectiva; un hombre revive la muerte del hijo de su amigo a la luz del LSD; en el cementerio de Obaba-Ugarte, dos conferenciantes pronuncian ante la multitud congregada una delirante charla sobre la vida y la muerte; un búho resulta ser una pieza indispensable para resolver varios crímenes.

This scholarly essay examines John Champlain Gardner's attack on existential nihilism in his satirical work Grendel. This lengthy essay has been referenced in numerous critical works on Gardner's satirical classic about an existential monster who chooses to construct a worldview based on chaos, violence, and absolute anarchy.

Each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. It was his way, he said, of "getting my mental arm in shape to pitch a good game." Steinbeck's...

Lyman Felt has it all: wealth, success, power, and the kind of good, solid wife he needs. Oh, and he also has another wife, the kind of earthy, sexy woman he wants. Lyman juggles his artful lie until a car accident on the slippery slope of Mt. Morgan lands him in a hospital bed—with two wives in the waiting room. But really, is there any such thing as "just an accident"?

Многие видели темную сторону американской мечты, но никто не писал об этом так, как Джим Тулли. Проведя шесть лет в сиротском приюте Цинциннати, дальнейшее образование Тулли постиг в грязных притонах, железнодорожных мастерских и публичных библиотеках, разбросанных по всей стране. Устав от бесконечных скитаний он поселился в Кенте, штат Огайо, где профессионально занимался боксом и пытался освоить профессию репортера. После переезда в Голливуд, Тулли выпустил серию книг, получивших признание критиков, которые служат мрачной и удивительной хроникой американского низшего класса.

Drawing on the example of post-WWII Britain and looking ahead at America in the 2020s, Jed Esty suggests that becoming a second-place nation is neither disastrous, as alarmists claim, nor avoidable, as optimists insist. Contemporary declinism often masks white nostalgia and perpetuates a conservative longing for Cold War certainty. But the narcissistic lure of "lost greatness" appeals across the political spectrum.

More like sisters than best friends, Issa Bui and Olivia Nong grew up dreaming of becoming movie stars. But for young Vietnamese women in 1930s Hollywood, the MGM back lot seems unreachable. Undeterred, Issa knows she’s meant for great things. The blood of shamans runs through her veins. To find fame in this town, for herself and for Olivia, Issa needs to make connections. For starters, with her dead grandmother Bà Ngoại.

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles...

“Kirsten Miller has that rare ability to take a serious subject and make it very, very funny. I enjoyed this novel and you will too.”--James Patterson The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller, author of The Change...

Considered “perhaps the most important American play of this century” by The Daily Telegraph, the Tony Award-winning Best Play has arrived on Audible. Based on Howards End by E.M. Forster, The Inheritance takes place in New York City decades after the AIDS epidemic. Eric Glass is a political activist engaged to his writer boyfriend, Toby Darling. When two strangers enter their lives—an older man and a younger one—their futures suddenly become uncertain as they begin to chart divergent paths.

A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, after-hours room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-pop mania “Powerful and provocative . . . a novel about...

Return to the world of The Dance Off . . . From USA Today bestselling author Alexis Daria comes the sizzling follow-up to Take the Lead. Professional dancer Natasha Díaz is broke, overworked, and in need of a place to crash. She's just desperate enough to move in with Dimitri Kovalenko, her...

He was dressing low-profile, but it was definitely him: red skin, horns, barbed tail, cloven hoofs, black goatee. He was unmistakable. Satan was buying soy milk and forty bucks' worth of unleaded fuel. In a small town two miles north of Hell, our deadbeat narrator spots Satan filling up his red...

In 1943 Japan, the Pacific War rages on. Miyoung, a Korean-born single mother and nurse, defies an order to serve in the Imperial Japanese Army and instead flees with her six-year-old son, Ko-chan, who is leaving everything familiar behind, including the grandparents he loves. Miyoung hopes Ko-chan will finally claim his heritage and that she can reclaim her own as well.

When overworked surgeon Jaanvi Chowdhury finds a mysterious photograph and a small stack of letters hidden in her Boston attic, she uncovers the remarkable story of her great-aunt Kalyani Joshi—one of the first Indian women to study medicine in 1920s London. As Jaanvi pieces together her ancestor’s life, she discovers Kalyani’s experience of colonial oppression, her role in India’s fight for independence, and her unlikely connection with a Scottish missionary’s son, Alexander.

At twenty-three, Bethany Briggs is one of the youngest analysts serving in the FBI’s San Francisco field office. Smart and diligent, she gets a big break when the violent crimes squad enlists her help in a case that brings her own cultural ties unexpectedly to the forefront. Four Filipino men—three of them members of the communist militia—are found murdered in the rainforest. Soon after, a diplomat is assassinated and the body of the prime suspect in the quadruple murder washes up on a beach. There’s a darker pattern beneath these killings.

"Family sticks together no matter what… right?" Former best friends and now husband and wife, Joaquin and Juliana, have experienced their face share of problems. Not only has Juliana had to care for her bull rider husband Joaquin after a shoulder injury, but also help raise Joaquin's two-year-old daughter, Trinity. With strength and perseverance, Joaquin and Juliana think everything is finally coming together. But life has something else in store for them… After a terrible bull riding accident that almost claimed his life, Joaquin finds his life spiraling out of control.

In this short, sharp, Southern Gothic horror novel, home takes on a whole new meaning. From Micaiah Johnson, the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Space Between Worlds. A house, itself, is nothing. It’s not a shelter until it is sheltering someone. A house is a housefire, waiting...

How is the individual and the ‘nation’ constructed and promoted in American theatre? How does theatre enable a nation to invent and reinvent itself? Who are the ‘people’ in ‘We the People’? This brief study examines the intersection of the USA’s sense of self with its theatre...

Rediscovering lost words and memories, a collection of heartfelt poems and reflections emerges from the past. Each piece captures unique life experiences, offering insights and emotions that resonate with listeners of all ages, inviting them to reflect on their own journeys. In A Dusty Cardboard Box, the author shares a personal narrative of rediscovery, revealing how a seemingly mundane cardboard box became a vessel of lost creativity.