Tasty Beach Reads

Six books, $80, sand optional

Tasty Beach Reads

Travelogues, love stories, workplace weirdness, crime novels, thrillers, short stories you can pick up between dips in the pool—we’ve got your summer reading. Shake out your towel.

An Apprenticeship, Clarice Lispector
The Factory, Hiroko Oyamada
The Dry Heart, Natalia Ginzburg
Investigations of a Dog & Other Creatures, Franz Kafka
The Skating Rink, Roberto Bolaño
The Colossus of Maroussi, Henry Miller

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cover image of the book The Colossus Of Maroussi
cover image of the book The Skating Rink

One-half brooding crime novel, one-half classic by literature’s new patron saint (Sam Anderson, New York Magazine)

cover image of the book Investigations of a Dog & Other Creatures

A masterful new translation by Michael Hofmann of Kafka’s best short fiction

cover image of the book The Dry Heart

Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriage

cover image of the book The Factory
cover image of the book An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writer