'The sharpest and funniest novel I read this year' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday A hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists. Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on
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'The sharpest and funniest novel I read this year' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday A hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists. Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR A TIME, GQ, Vulture, and WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Finalist f
This book brings together for the first time Ben Lerner's three acclaimed volumes of poetry, along with a handful of newer poems, to present a decade-long exploration of the relationship between form and meaning, between private experience and public
No art has been denounced as often as poetry. Its even bemoaned by poets: I, too, dislike it, wrote Marianne Moore. Many more people agree they hate poetry, Ben Lerner writes, than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my
From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times. The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice memos and vignettes, songs and silences, that
A writer returns to his college town, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor. But after he drops his smartphone in the hotel sink, he arrives at Thomas's house with no recording device
WINNER OF THE ORWELL POLITICAL FICTION BOOK PRIZE 2026 'Smart and subtle... You'll read it, then want to read it again' - GQ A writer returns to his college town, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, h
Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize A New Yorker Essential Read Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post , Vulture , NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric Literature A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the a
Romanens fremtid er lige her. SALLY ROONEY Et mesterligt fortalt drama om fortrængte familiehemmeligheder, amerikansk identitet og sprogets magt. Topeka, Kansas, sidst i 1990erne. I centrum står high school-eleven Adam Gordon og hans forældre, psykologern
Muligvis den bedste roman, du kommer til at læse i år. TELEGRAPH En mesterlig meditation over hukommelse, teknologi og forældreskab skrevet af en af USAs førende samtidsforfattere. I sin intelligente og gribende roman undersøger Ben Lerner, hvad det vil
"Farvel til Atocha" af Ben Lerner er en underholdende, poetisk og gennemtænkt roman, der mediterer over kunsten og livet som ung kunstner i den senmoderne verden. Adam Gordon er en ung digter, der har modtaget et legat og er på stipendieophold i
"Topekaskolen” er Ben Lerners aktuelle og intelligente roman om det moderne USA og den hvide mands identitetskrise. "Topekaskolen” foregår i Topeka, Kansas, i slutningen af 90'erne. Adam Gordon går på den lokale high school og bo
From the "most talented writer of his generation" ( The New York Times ), a lightning flash of a novel that is at once a gripping emotional drama and a brilliant examination of the devices, digital and literary, we use to store--or to erase--our