Groff's prose is mesmerizing; and her ability to share these hellish visions, to draw you in to the fates of characters in a few lines, to immerse you in this cycle of highly realistic end-of-the world dystopic micro-fictions, is simply astonishing.

Family secrets, smashed ambitions, racial tensions: welcome to Celeste Ng's world! In this riveting page-turner, the international bestselling author pursues her investigation of mother & daughter relationships and American suburban life.

If you don't want to read about white, privileged, post-war America--not that there is anything wrong with that--I'd recommend you skip this note altogether. Through tracing the arc of a man's life, All That Is (et rien d'autre) chronicles the end of an era in book publishing, when the business was mostly a gentleman’s pursuit—amateur, clubbish, waspy, and above all,…

“Passerby, I beg you, spread roses on my tomb” Maybe you will end up with a bleeding heart… In 1959, Aragon wrote a book about his muse, Elsa, in the tormented context of the Russian revolution. Elsa Triolet and Louis Aragon met in 1929 when she arrived from Russia to join the surrealist movement in Paris. During the revolution, they…

Antoine Compagnon invites us to a delightful and erudite stroll through Michel de Montaigne’s work and the –much needed – reminder that as long as there are people willing to consider carefully, observe passionately, and speak measuredly, there is hope.

With great humor and a remarkable sense of details, Bove describes the mundane daily life of Victor Baton and his harrowing quest for friendship. Hilariously funny at times, compelling at others, My friends brilliantly captures the fragility of mankind and the fragrance of 1924's Paris.