After young pianist Paul Porterfield engages in a brief affair with aging prodigy Richard Kennington and both return to New York to pursue separate endeavors, they do not see each other again, but their relationship has profound reper...

"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe"To Build a Fire" by Jack London"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant"The Man Who Would Be King" by Rudyard Kipling"The Gift of the Magi&quo...

Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip Benjamin, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the ...

It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon, Portugal, is the only neutral port left in Europe—a city filled with spies, crowned heads, and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until their escape. Awa...