Dies ist ein wunderbar amüsanter Roman über den Künstler als jungen Mann in der schönen neuen Welt von Globalisierung und ironischer Lebenshaltung-ein raffiniertes Generationenporträt, von der US-Kritik frenetisch gefeiert. Der junge...

Shortlisted for the Folio Prize and internationally celebrated by critics and readers alike, here is a dazzling and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire. In prose that Jonathan...

Paperback edition of one of the most striking and widely celebrated literary debuts of 2012 which veers between the comic and the tragic, and the self-contemptuous and the inspired. 'Seductively intelligent and stylish writing'...

National Book Award finalist's third volume is layered with quick changes, false starts, and continuous reorientation von Lerner, Ben

Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His parents are psychologists, his mom a famous author in the field. A renowned debater and orator, an aspiring poet, and - although it requires a lot of posturing and weight...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEARA TIME, GQ, Vulture, and WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK of the YEARONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR...

Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award uses "broken sonnets" to explore complex juxtapositions of contemporary culture. von Lerner, Ben

An inventive and lucid essay from the author of "10:04", in which he takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defence of the art. Lerner examines poetry's greatest haters, its greatest and worst practitioners and explains...

No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's 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...

The Topeka School von Lerner, Ben