Christian Ford is betrayed in an adulterous affair only to discover that he himself has betrayed the woman he loved and abandoned, in this novel of psychological and moral insight

The conflicts between love and hate, good and evil, and life and art are explored in a portrait of Alaric Darconville, a twenty-nine-year-old professor at Quinsy College--a woman's college in Virginia--who falls in love with and is jilted by one of his students

The conflicts between love and hate, good and evil, and life and art are explored in a portrait of Alaric Darconville, a twenty-nine-year-old professor at Quinsy College--a women's college in Virginia--who falls in love with and is jilted by one of his students

A portrait of the controversial life of Li'l Abner's creator recounts how he used the strip for years to reflect his observations of political issues and traces his eventual deterioration into an embittered conservative extremist who turned on the causes he once championed. Original.

Product Description: “Seeing Estonia ― disrobing her ― was my focus.” Any journey with Alexander Theroux is an education. Possessed of a razor-sharp and hyperliterate mind, he stands beside Thomas Pynchon as one of the sharpest cultural commentators of our time...read more

Product Description: Theroux's acclaimed 2007 novel, now in paperback.In 2007, National Book Award Nominee Alexander Theroux (Three Wogs, Darconville’s Cat, and An Adultery), returned to the world of letters with his first novel in 20 years: Laura Warholic or The Sexual Intellectual...read more

Product Description: The Lollipop Trollops gathers the poems―written over several decades―of Alexander Theroux, one of the most brilliant novelists of our age. It is an uncompromising and explosive volume, a work of astonishing force and variety.Although written in a genre by which he has been known thus far only to a few, this book but continues what, taken altogether, including his essays, plays, stories, and fables, he understands to be a part of a single vision, the unfolding drama of a mind in action...read more

The imaginative artwork of Brian Froud illustrates this whimsical fable about two orphans, Master Snickup and the incredibly beautiul Superfecta, who grow up and are separated by an ugly squire's lascivious designs on the girl

Product Description: A fascinating cultural history, these splendid essays on the three primary colors--blue, yellow, and red--extend to the artistic, literary, linguistic, botanical, cinematic, aesthetic, religious, scientific, culinary, climatological, and emotional dimensions of each color...read more

A collection of three meditations on purple, orange, and green encompassing poetry, song, fable, gossip, and trivia

Product Description: The Firecracker Alternative Book Award-winning look back at the life of the late artist Edward Gorey. Combining artistic analysis, a personal reminiscence of the artist Theroux knew for over 25 years, and an intimate familiarity with Gorey's oeuvre while drawing on exclusive interviews with the artist (the book was begun before Gorey's passing in 2000 at the age of 75 but completed just after), this book stands as the most comprehensive bio yet written about the beloved but reclusive and enigmatic artist...read more

Product Description: National Book Award finalist, 1973

Three Londoners find their lives changed after encounters with three individuals of foreign background