On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the emperor of Japan.

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress.

Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.

There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.

The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.

The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.

First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

Die Welt ist gierig, und manchmal verschwinden Menschen in ihrem Schlund, ohne jemals wieder gesehen zu werden.

As the ordinary violence of dawn sweeps across the lower Coromandel coast, a sprawling village comes into view.

I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.

I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die.

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.