If that line means something to you, if it shocks or surprises you, then you are the reader Laurent Binet is writing for in his newly translated novel, The Seventh Function of Language. This is ...
In Umberto Eco’s 1983 novel, The Name of the Rose, a ratiocinating monk named Baskerville and his assistant team up in search of a missing text—the apocryphal second book of Aristotle’s Poetics, which ...
Laurent Binet’s first novel, HHhH, was a stylish piece of metafiction about the 1942 assassination of the Nazi security chief Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. It was striking for placing the author firmly ...