John Lanchester

Kavanagh llega al Muro para incorporarse a una de las patrullas de Defensores que protegen las diversas secciones de los intentos de invasión de los Otros. Esos extranjeros tratan de treparlo desde el Mar e invadir el país isleño, que debe protegerse del exterior desde que se produjo el Cambio que, entre otras cosas, provocó una subida del nivel del mar. Kavanagh está obligado a cumplir dos años de servicio, y el único modo de evitarlo sería...

"Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Wall. In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw," the acclaimed English novelist John Lanchester published a ghost story in The New Yorker. "Signal" was a sensation among readers and was featured on public radio-and it was the first short story of any kind Lanchester had ever written. Since then he's written several more eerie stories of contemporary...

Mary-Kay Wilmers cofounded the London Review of Books in 1979, and has been its sole editor since 1992. Her editorial life began long before that: she started at Faber and Faber in the time of T. S. Eliot, then worked at the Listener, and then at the Times Literary Supplement. As John Lanchester says in his introduction, she has been extracting literary works from reluctant writers for more than fifty years. As well as an editor, Mary-Kay Wilmers...