'Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I fin[...]

Tom is happy with his new Aunt Bundlejoy Cosysweet who is delighted to be asked to join him in his latest invention, a jam-powered frog. When the frog hops past Captain Najork's window, Tom does not expect to be chased by a pedal powered snake, complete with the Captain and his hired sportsmen, bent[...]

Life in a city can be atomizing, isolating. And it certainly is for William G. and Neaera H., the strangers at the center of Russell Hoban's surprisingly heartwarming novel "Turtle Diary." William, a clerk at a used-book store, lives in a rooming house after a divorce that has left him without home [...]

Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of post - World War II German literature's most important no[...]

Märkliga meddelanden från Medusa skymtar på den trötte Herman Orffs bildskärm. Sedan kommer Orfeus’ huvud flytande nedför Themsen och kräver att få berätta sin historia… Hoban å sin sida berättar som ingen annan i nutida engelsk prosa. Översättning Maria Ekman.[...]