Safety of Objects, A.M. HomesPublished to overwhelming critical acclaim, this extraordinary collection of short stories established A. M. Homes as one of the most provocative and daring writers of her generation. Here you'll find the cult classic "A Real Doll," the tale of a teenage boy's erotic obsession with his sister's favorite doll; "Adults Alone," which first introduced Paul and Elaine, the crack smoking yuppie couple whose marriage careens out of control in Homes's novel

At this moment in history

Gods Without Men becomes a heartfelt exploration of the search for meaning in a chaotic universe

Anthony Horowitz

drawing on his own years in a USSR prison camp and laying bare the perils of totalitarianism ( Financial Times )

Malcolm Gladwell has explored the ways we understand and change our world

Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher

As the end of the world approaches

he prefers to stay home with a book

where he once shared the course with an Olympian

The writers regale us with tales from their own lives in their home away from home

You can already do this by the way

Ten years later