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There is a vibrant quality running through the narrator's life that I would equate to a good noir detective novel that keeps the page-turning pace up, with the occasional weirdo wandering into the story (more than a few times)

Fiennes' production in which the poem is the script, performed in a theatre with subtle changes of light, and accompanied by film interludes of the locations associated with the poem's four sections.

UFO nutjobs find themselves in an extremely well-written novel.

Christopher Hitchens reflects on his upbringing, the influences that shaped him, and the philosophical foundations of his worldview.

Quicksand is a silkily nuanced novel of erotic gamesmanship and obsession.

A novella that is the confession of Pozdnyshev, a man who recounts the tragic unraveling of his life and marriage. Very Russian fare.

Essays on the intricacies of literature, focusing on the importance of originality,

A tale of an unusual 18th century mutiny.

Narrated by fellow mouse, who reflects on Josephine's (a mouse) significance

A young man falls for a dancer and in promoting her falls into debt, and

Short tales by R.K. Narayan taking place in the fictional town of Malgudi.

The contemporary art world comes face to face with one Michel Houellebecq.

The trivial moments in life often hold greater meaning than grand events? Find out here.

Why not write the big story of the past by telling the little ones?

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A tale that revolves around a wealthy financier, Benjamin Rask, and his enigmatic wife, Helen.

Ray Midge, a bean counter in Arkansas, is our leading man and narrator. One day, his wife leaves him for Guy Dupree, but what's worse is that she takes his car.

Multi-levels of meaning and potential interpretation exist in this, one of

Hard sci-fi from the author of The Martian.

August book club selection

Essay collection by the author of Killers of the Flower Moon.

A new and compelling discovery for me. The work is difficult to summarize or put into a genre, oddly.

A brief but oddly engaging novel narrated by a grammar school student.

My favorite collection of Saunders' short stories until Tenth of December

Plenty of philosophical themes in this patient - psychologist dialogue

Really well done multiple personality disorder character. Also a side mystery

Two light-skinned Black women from the same neighborhood follow very different trajectories in life and one day reconnect.

Retirees spend Thursdays solving old mysteries for enjoyment.

Essays out of central Europe during the First Cold War by one of Poland's leading intellectuals.

The book that influenced Orwell, Huxley and Rand.