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From the acclaimed author of How to Be Eaten, a fresh take on the campus novel that follows an adjunct professor gigging her way through academia’s poor job market when she crosses paths with her old PhD adviser whose new novel might be about her—for readers of Worry, Vladimir, and Less...

A wry, incisive satire of envy and ambition following a failed novelist’s absurd quest to sabotage his more successful rival—with a new introduction by James Wood. Richard Tull, a failed and disillusioned novelist, seethes with envy as he watches his longtime friend Gwyn Barry, a talentless...

Named one of Time’s 100 best novels in the English language, Money is “savagely hilarious. It risks, it boils with energy . . . it even manages to shock” (The Washington Post). Including a new introduction by Lorrie Moore, author of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Originally published...

Archibald Abercrombie is a meticulous dentist whose orderly life is briefly upended after a chance meeting with the exuberant writer G. K. Chesterton. While initially intoxicated by Chesterton’s brilliant paradoxes and disregard for convention, Abercrombie gradually notices the physical decay and practical neglect hidden beneath the author’s verbal abundance. He eventually realizes that while intellectual spectacle can inspire, it often evades the necessary responsibility of repair and care.

After 17 isekai tours, Kaito D. Smith takes the most dangerous job yet: HR for gods. At DIP, a planet-sized office at the center of everything, his days are a blur of cosmic request forms, compliance rituals, and simulation chambers where "orientation" involves dodging meteorites in business casual.

An out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong? In Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a...

Frauen im Internet stehen unter ständiger Beobachtung. Sophie Passmann ist selbst Teil der widersprüchlichen Welt weiblicher Selbstdarstellung in den sozialen Medien. Radikal selbstkritisch seziert sie die Phänomene, die eine ganze Generation prägen: von der asketischen Disziplin einer Hailey Bieber über die kalkulierte Görenhaftigkeit von Charli XCX bis zur neurotischen Perfektion von Taylor Swift. Warum sind wir alle so fasziniert von Frauen, die uns etwas vormachen – und gleichzeitig hassen wir sie genau dafür?

Es ist dunkel in Leipzig. Alles schläft. Alles? Nein. Ein Kind leistet erbittert Widerstand. Der Vater, dem Autor nicht ganz unähnlich, zieht das letzte Register: eine Spazierfahrt mit dem Buggy. Mit ungewissem Ausgang und nicht vorhersehbarer Dauer. Wie die Odyssee. In klein. Und ohne Schiff. Dafür mit Sirenen. Ein Hörbuch für alle, die Kinder haben. Oder auf keinen Fall welche wollen.

A college instructor embarks on a fanatical quest to save his job—and enact righteous revenge—in this brilliantly acerbic satire of university politics during the early Cold War years Henry Mulcahy's future is in question. An instructor of literature at Jocelyn College, an institute of higher learning renowned for its progressive approach to education, he has just received word that he will not be teaching next semester. He strongly suspects that his dismissal has been engineered by his nemesis, the college president, who Henry believes resents his superior skills as an educator.

Edgar Blunt is an ordinary man who discovers an annotated anthology of philosophy and becomes obsessed with achieving Aristotelian virtue through rigid, literal interpretations of concepts like potentiality and the Golden Mean. Edgar’s attempts to mathematically calibrate his friendships, diet, and even his sock drawer lead to social isolation and personal paralysis.

The death of Maxilodimus Cruett, who drowns in a vat of oil, sparks a global controversy. Society becomes divided into Rationalists, Pilgrims, and various new theological groups who debate whether the event was murder, a miracle, or a “merger” of substance and consciousness. Grease itself starts to become sentient—it begins to hum, speak, and eventually organize, eventually forming an international commission. Legal battles ensue, culminating in a global strike where all lubrication ceases, with disastrous results for worldwide infrastructure.

In early 2021, the stock value of PwnShop—a dead to rights bricks-and-mortar retailer disrupted by the digital downloading of video games—inexplicably ballooned overnight. While much has been written about the mechanics of the meme stock short squeezes, no one has yet clarified the chaotic drama of what was happening inside such a company during its zeitgeist moment.

For fans of Bad Summer People and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, four influencers begin to suspect their mega-church's new pastor isn’t as devoted as he seems, and must decide if exposing him is worth revealing their own secrets. "A delightful satire full of tenderness and heart. Alli has...

C.S. Lewis' apologetic classic The Screwtape Letters is full of keen wit and wise counsel—if one is a Christian believer. Such a reader will find much to ponder in its pages. But instead of a wily senior devil who offers advice to a mentee nephew on how to secure the damnation of humans, what if the letter writer were a clever angel who instructs his underling how to keep humans firmly fixed in their Christian faith?

Schon seit einem Jahr herrscht militärische Ordnung im Hause Schweizer. Tochter Gabriele war in einem früheren Leben sicher mal Feldwebel und so darf Jupp gerade noch atmen. Auch Maggie leidet unter dem Kommandoton ihrer Tochter und das mit anzugucken, erträgt er nicht. Er träumt von Freiheit, Sonne, Meer und einem Platz an Deck eines Traumschiffes. Da Träumen allein nichts ändert, macht er sich kurzerhand auf den Weg in ein Reisebüro… Leider ist gut gemeint noch lange nicht gut gemacht…

Dorothy Gale isn't in Kansas anymore. These days, she's the smoothest thief in Oz, pulling off heists flashier than Eeyore's underpants. But after years of high-tech robberies, she's ready to hang it up. Just one last score stands between her and a happily-ever-after with her sketchy-but-hot boyfriend, Hatter. If it goes well, she'll be a legend. If not… well, there's always Kansas.

Ein Mann wacht eines Morgens als Frau auf und erlebt die Welt aus der anderen Perspektive. Dieses kluge Gedankenspiel enthüllt, was oft verdrängt wird – strukturelle Ungleichheit, subtile Vorurteile und die alltägliche Benachteiligung von Frauen. Das Buch zeigt, wie Frauen ihre Wünsche verwirklichen, den Gender Pay Gap überwinden und ihr Glück finden – und warum echte Gleichberechtigung uns alle stärkt: für mehr Verständnis, Fairness und gemeinsamen Erfolg.

La mujer ajena y el marido debajo de la cama escrito en 1848 antes de su arresto y exilio, formando parte de sus primeros relatos cómicos y de crítica social, cuando Fiódor Dostoyevski experimentaba con el relato breve humorístico dentro de la tradición satírica rusa del siglo XIX. Aunque no posee la profundidad estructural de sus grandes novelas, anticipa rasgos esenciales de su obra: la atención a la conciencia alterada, el análisis del autoengaño y la exposición pública de la vergüenza. El espacio físico reducido —debajo de la cama— funciona como símbolo de una conciencia atrapada.

Lanark, a modern vision of hell set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination, its playful narrative conveys a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying.

Ihre Methoden sind agil, sie handeln proaktiv, präsentieren nachhaltige und skalierbare Lösungen – Topmanager leben in anderen Sphären. Da, wo die Luft dünn ist und ein einziger Fauxpas den Fall ins Bodenlose bedeuten kann. Doch nun halten Frauen Einzug ins Habitat der Krawattenträger, und das bei den Angestellten so beliebte Homeoffice lässt die Führungsriege mit abgesägten Hosen dastehen. Die Herausforderungen werden diverser. Wem kann man noch trauen? Den Topkadern entgleitet die Kontrolle.