Contemporary Fiction

Widely considered one of our most rewarding novelists, Jerome Charyn has upped the ante (Larry McMurtry) by re-creating the voice of Theodore R...

Wildly kaleidoscopic and furiously cinematic, Home After Dark is a literary tour-de-force that renders the brutality of adolescence in the so-calle...

This wonderfully original collection proves once again that Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet is the American writer with the funniest, wisest g...

Jerusalem in the early 1990s, just before the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo Peace Accords and was assassinated by a right-wi...

This lyrical novel tells the story of a young man living in Egypt in the 1990s, a time of great turmoil. We see student riots at Cairo University, ...

May 1992. In Russia, Boris Yeltsin is showing millions of communists the spectre of capitalism. Yugoslavia is disintegrating. United Germany is u...

The perfect book for paranoid times, I introduces us to W, a mere hanger-on in East Berlins postmodern underground literary scene. All is not as it...

In an isolated region of Idaho, Montana, and eastern Oregon, an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge escalates into civil war. Against this backdr...

Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is a glowing work of art (Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice as hypnotic as...

Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and he...

'In 196869 I wanted to die, that is to say, stop living, being killed, but it was blocked on all sides,' wrote Hlne Cixous, esteemed French femin...