"[A] 21st-century response to Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'"―NPR "A revelation."―Time A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and ideally, very little thinking. Her first gig--watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing co...(展开全部)

At the heart of Happiness As Such is an absence―an abyss that draws everyone nearer to its edge―created by the departure of a family’s wayward only son, Michele, who has fled from Italy to England to escape the dangers and threats of his radical political ties. This novel is part epistolary: his mother writes letters to him, nagging him; his sister Angelica writes to him too; s...(展开全部)

Jacques Lacan claimed that his theory of feminine sexuality, including the infamous proposition, "the Woman does not exist," constituted a revision of his earlier work on "the ethics of psychoanalysis." In Imagine There's No Woman, Joan Copjec shows how Freud's ragtag, nearly incoherent notion of sublimation was refashioned by Lacan to become the key term in his ethics. To trac...(展开全部)

The poems of John Hejduk are almost nonpoetic: still lives of memory, sites of possessed places. They give a physical existence to the words themselves and an autobiographical dimension to the architect. Architect Peter Eisenman likens them to "secret agents in an enemy camp."Writing about Hejduk's poems in 1980, Eisenman observed, "Walter Benjamin has said that Baudelaire's wr...(展开全部)

The poems of John Hejduk are almost nonpoetic: still lives of memory, sites of possessed places. They give a physical existence to the words themselves and an autobiographical dimension to the architect. Architect Peter Eisenman likens them to "secret agents in an enemy camp."Writing about Hejduk's poems in 1980, Eisenman observed, "Walter Benjamin has said that Baudelaire's wr...(展开全部)

安德烈斯·巴尔瓦（Andrés Barba，1975— ） 西语界当红小说家，已出版十三部作品，除小说外包括了散文、诗歌及摄影集，作品被翻译成十种语言。同时，他也是托马斯·德·昆西、赫尔曼·梅尔维尔、约瑟夫·康拉德、亨利·詹姆斯和司各特·菲茨杰拉德等著名作家的西语译者。 2010年，巴尔瓦被《格兰塔》杂志评选为二十二个最杰出的西语青年作家之一。曾于1997年和2006年两获托伦特·巴列斯特尔叙事文学奖，2007年获阿纳格拉玛散文奖，2011年获胡安·马奇叙事文学奖，2017年获赫拉尔德小说奖。

Darren Shan has been made a half-vampire by Mr Crepsley, but the Cirque Du Freak holds more unpleasant surprises for the vampire's assistant. Darren joins the vampire, Mr Crepsley, as his assistant and they return to the Cirque Du Freak. There, Darren makes friends with the snake-boy, Evra Von (who knows what Darren is) and a local boy, Sam, and RV, an eco-warrior and animal lo...(展开全部)

This is a vintage murder mystery. Private detective and poet Nigel Strangeways is invited to address the Maiden Astbury literary society. The picturesque Dorset town is home to Bunnett's Brewery, run by the much disliked, and feared, Eustace Bunnett and shortly before Nigel's visit, Bunnett's dog Truffles, was found dead in one of the brewery's vats. The culprit was never caugh...(展开全部)

罗因顿·米斯特里（Rohinton Mistry），加拿大籍印度裔作家，1952年生于印度孟买，1974年毕业于圣泽维尔大学数学与经济学专业，1975年移民至加拿大，后毕业于多伦多大学乌兹沃斯学院英语与哲学专业。主要作品有长篇小说《昼短夜长》《微妙的平衡》《家事》，短篇小说集《费罗莎·巴格故事集》等。他的作品描绘了印度社会的各个层面，以及印度帕西人的生活、习俗和信仰，充满了对印度的怀念之情。 熊裕，译者，译有《多莱尔的希腊神话书》《雪落香杉树》《日翅蝠》《月亮与六便士》等多部文学经典和学术著作。

It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill; his promising son defies his father's ambitions for him. He is the one reasonable voice amidst the ongoing dramas of his neighbours. One day, he receives...(展开全部)