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Literary Fiction
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ? John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction exploring themes of purpose and the meaning of existence. "[Barth] ran riot over... See More
Literature & Fiction
This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting... to roam the world since Candide." "A feast... See More
Literature & Fiction
From the author of National Book Award-nominated Lost in the Funhouse, comes an outrageously farcical adventure that challenges our notions of technology, power, and human nature. "[Barth] ran riot over literary rules and... See More
Humor & Satire
A National Book Award winner, this bawdy, comic trio of novellas finds John Barth injecting his signature wit into three tales many times told: that of Scheherazade, storyteller of the Thousand and One Nights; of Perseus... See More
Literary Fiction
"A merry satire about the smart, moneyed, and demanding retirees living in a gated community... Scintillating on the surface and churning with danger below" (Booklist). From a National Book Award-winning author, this is a... See More
Literature & Fiction
From the National Book Award winner, three linked novellas that "will stretch your mind, challenge your thoughts, and bend your reality" (Charlotte Observer). John Barth, "one of the greatest novelists of our time"... See More
Contemporary Fiction
As young Jake Horner's mind became an increasingly paralyzing cobweb of dark thoughts, he turned for help to an extraordinary doctor -- part saint, part evil-genius, a weird combination of faith healer, magician, and devil... See More
Literature & Fiction
For decades, acclaimed author John Barth has strayed from his Monday-through-Thursday-morning routine of fiction-writing and dedicated Friday mornings to the muse of nonfiction. The result is Final Fridays, his third essay... See More
Literary Fiction
John Barth stays true to form in Every Third Thought, written from the perspective of a character Barth introduced in his short story collection The Development. George I. Newett and his wife Amanda Todd lived in the gated... See More
Essays & CorrespondenceThis special 30th anniversary issue features new work by John Barth, Billy Collins, Albert Goldbarth, David Lehman, Jean McGarry, Richard Newman, Paul Ruffin, Charles Simic, Anis Shivani, G.C. Waldrep, Alex Chernow--the... See More
Literature & Fiction
La fine della strada (pubblicato originariamente nel 1958 e finalista al National Book Award) è il romanzo meno «barthiano» di John Barth: alla tendenza barocca, sperimentale e metanarrativa che contraddistingue gran... See More