David Leavitt, ‘one of the major voices in contemporary fiction’ (Guardian), returns with a brilliant new novel about our sense of self and safety in the divisive age of Donald Trump Eva and Bruce L
'Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet' Rachel Cusk'A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel' Jenny OffillIt is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential
Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex
As Europe prepares for war during the summer of 1940, two couples - expatriate Americans fleeing Paris and wealthy bohemians beset by the social and sexual anxieties of their class - arrive in Portuga
As fascism rises in 1930s Europe, an aristocratic British writer and a working-class communist begin a homosexual love affair, facing problems of class difference and personal ambivalence as they are
Tender, unsettling and amusing, an array of stories presents families all unhappy in their own different ways—from a mother who presides over her local Parents of Lesbians and Gays chapter, yet has tr
The story of Philip Benjamin, a young man haunted by images of his staid, middle-class parents and frightened by the thought of revealing his homosexual identity to them. Reissue.
The story of Alan Turing, the persecuted genius who helped break the Enigma code and create the modern computer, and who received a royal pardon in 2013To solve one of the great mathematical problems
Pursuing his separate goals of becoming a published writer and to come out of the closet, Martin Bauman, an insecure, talented student at a prestigious college, finds his life irrevocably altered by h
Here are three novellas of escape and exile, touching and funny and at times calculatedly outrageous. In "Saturn Street," a disaffected L.A. screenwriter delivers lunches to homebound AIDS patients,
Equal Affections tells the story of the funny, loving, and tragic Cooper family. Louise, the indomitable matriarch, has had cancer for twenty years. Her son Danny, a lawyer, lives in a New Jersey subu
In David Leavitt's chilling science fiction epic, FutureHistory: The Coming Past, three very different lives converge with shocking results. As a deadly creature is unleashed on the world and a mass m
To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built on
