Meet Steve (not his real name), a Special Case, in truth a Terminal Case, and the eponymous antihero of Sam Lipsyte’s first novel. Steve has been informed by two doctors that he is dying of a condition of unquestioned fatality, with no di...

Milo Burke, a development officer at a third-tier university, has “not been developing”: after a run-in with a well-connected undergrad, he finds himself among the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to...

Milo Burke - husband to a 'touched-out' wife, father to a three-year-old son, fund-raising officer at a third-tier university - has just joined the swelling ranks of the unemployed. As he grasps after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo i...

An intense, mordantly funny collection of short fiction from the author of Home Land and The Ask . A man with an "old soul" finds himself at a Times Square peep show, looking for more than just a little action. A young man goes into so...