Chimerical

Originally published in English in 2003, Nicole Brossard's Museum of Bone and Water delivers sensual and provocative investigations of the human body -- our physical and spiritual museums of identity and desire -- that pulse and surprise at every...

Delving deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is an unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when outside forces disrupt their delicate balance of...

"Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton ("bad taste" loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have...