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A forgotten gem of French literature, Duvert's version of The Lord of the Flies: an indictment against the violence embedded in a middle-class comm...

Reflections of a “revolutionary whore” and champion of sexual freedom and prostitutes' rights.They have to come back to us, because we know every d...

The conclusion of a radically philosophical and personal series of Fanny Howe novels animated by questions of race, spirituality, childhood, transi...

How the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt: a writer's account of her experience working in an Amaz...

A Situationist International roman à clef, written by Guy Debord's first wife, a founder of the movement and one of its influential thinkers.“What ...

A cult classic in France, the first translation of a novel that captures a subjective stroll through an underground, glamorous Parisfinally there a...

A collection of early and not-so-early work by the mistress of gut-level fiction-making.You can say I write stories with sex and violence and there...

On Hervé Guibert and the difficulty of writing and speaking about someone beloved and revered.“Soon that was my nickname for Hervé, what with my ha...

A new collection of essays from Dodie Bellamy on disenfranchisement, vulgarity, American working-class life, aesthetic values, and profound embarra...

A gleeful grotesquerie and savage satire, featuring Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln and the Devil, along with Civil War dead, deconstructed couture, ...

A collection of short stories, set among the disappeared and darkened sectors of New York City, about characters who fall prey to an increasingly b...

An autobiographical coming-of-age novel by the the “only gay man” in Morocco.An autobiographical novel by turn naïve and cunning, funny and moving,...

A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing, guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage the soulless. Includes Adele Bertei, Holly Hughe...

This brilliant, incisive volume captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s.Listen, I have been educated. I have lear...

The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book W...

A novel about life under enlightened totalitarianism in the twenty-third century and the efforts of a mild-mannered junk dealer to change the human...

Sasha Frere-Jones’s evolution as a writer and musician with the deceptively casual intelligence that marks all of his work.Shuttling between his fi...

The short, obscure, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), a significant figure in modernism.Fir...

A book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com.An enchanting roll of ...

A touchstone novel of lesbian adolescence, set years before gay liberation.“Dear Miss Maxfield … what I’m really afraid of is that I am a homosexua...

A poetic exploration of trauma and renewal from the last avant-garde visionary of the twentieth century.Long ago, in childhood, when Summer reverbe...

A sardonic and artful reconstruction of the brief life of the party boy who became a media sensation for shooting Gianni Versace.It was suddenly ch...

On the ongoing project of writing about grief; Zambreno's addendum to Book of Mutter.“I came up with the idea of writing these notes, or talks, out...

Short stories set among the disappeared and darkened sectors of New York City, about characters who fall prey to an increasingly bureaucratized pov...