At the age of 12, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully's Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face - and heart - of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.

Capote's previously lost and unpublished tale "Yachts and Things" was recently discovered by Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kasher in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library. Written at the height of his career and socialite life, this short, thinly-veiled work of fiction tells the story of two friends about to take an "idyllic three-week cruise in the Mediterranean aboard a friend's chartered yacht".

私は宿命的に放浪者である――若き日の日記をもとに記された林芙美子(1903―51)の生涯の代表作。舞台は第一次大戦後の東京。

ロシアの文豪フョードル・ドストエフスキー初期の短編小説。初出は『祖国雑誌』[1848年]。

「厚顔かつ無良心の打算家に対する諷刺は、柔らかな叙述に包まれながらも、くっきりと

2017年7月、売れない犯罪実話ライターのキャシーはひとつの記事に目をとめた。テキサス州南部の地方紙が、1986年8月に起きたアルゼンチン人男性銃殺事件の背景を探っていた。

上海の租界に暮らすバンクスは十歳で孤児となった。

「悲劇的なもの」への憧憬と渇仰。それは三島由紀夫にとって存在の深部から湧出する抑えがたい欲動であった。自己を衝き動かす「前意味論的欲動」は、彼の文学を研ぎ澄ませ昇華させると同時に

ベネチアのサンマルコ広場で演奏するギタリストが垣間見た、アメリカの大物シンガーとその妻の絆とは――ほろにがい出会いと別れを描いた「老歌手」をはじめ、音楽をテーマにした五篇を収録。

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.

Narrator Dan Stevens ( Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.