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Alex Kovacs

The tenth child of a fantasist mother and an absent millionaire, Matty Crickholme is growing
into a sexually bewildered, neurotic young man. Through the collected paraphernalia of an
unconventional childhood, Alex Kovacs creates a quirky, kaleidoscopic rumination on family and
how it shapes us—for better or worse.
Sexology follows the strange, wonderful, fluxional world of the Crickholmes, where
nonconformism is celebrated, siblings form autonomous republics, and eccentricity reigns
supreme. The Crickholme siblings youthful exploits take them on myriad paths: a hermetic
psychic, a dog trainer, an ice cream purveyoress, a missing person. Between memories,
factoids, letters, and old photographs, Matty investigates how their offbeat rearing made them
the adults they became, and how fantasy and convention collide.

Alex Kovacs’s writings have received acclaim for their invention, wit, and astute observations of
our absurd world. Sexology brings this intellectual playfulness to the story of the Crickholmes
with a unique prose that evokes the complex emotional landscapes of W.G. Sebald’s novels and
the sometimes-gentle, sometimes-devastating style of Susanna Clarke. The result is an
entrancing, incomparable medley.

Dalkey Archive Press

British Literature

Sexology

Christopher Woodall

November may be said to have four protagonists: a group of night-shift workers in Southeast France; their friends, relatives, lovers, acquaintances; the factory in which they work; the work itself. The focus is on two and a half hours during one evening in November 1976 and the plastic die-casting workshop where the men are employed. Staggering in scope, November is a virtuoso performance—a contemporary take on the classical modernist novel, anatomizing the ways we live, think, and labor: what we've lost, and what we're losing.

November

Nicholas Mosley

Returning to London from a trip to the West Indies, an aspiring writer encounters a bewitching trio of friends whose magic lies in their ability to turn any situation into fantasy. Previously out of place in the world, the narrator falls in love with the young brother-sister pair of Peter and Annabelle, as well as the older, more political Marius. 

Reality soon encroaches upon the foursome, however, in the form of Marius's ailing wife, forcing the narrator to confront the dark emptiness and fear at the heart of his friends' joie de vivre. In this, his second novel—written in the '50s and never before published—Nicholas Mosley weighs questions of responsibility and sacrifice against those of love and earthly desire, the spirit versus the flesh.

A Garden of Trees

Mina Loy

Stories and Essays of Mina Loy is the first book-length volume of Mina Loy's narrative writings and critical work ever published. This volume brings together her short fiction, as well as hybrid works that include modernized fairy tales, a Socratic dialogue, and a ballet. Loy's narratives address issues such as abortion and poverty, and what she called "the sex war" is an abiding theme throughout. 

Stories and Essays of Mina Loy also contains dramatic works that parody the bravado and misogyny of Futurism and demonstrate Loy's early, effective use of absurdist technique. Essays and commentaries on aesthetics, historical events, and religion complete this beguiling collection, cementing Mina Loy's place as one of the great writers of the twentieth century.

Stories and Essays of Mina Loy

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