Jakob von Gunten is a seventeen-year-old runaway who enrolls in a school for servants. The Institute is a deeply mysterious place: the faculty lies asleep in a single room; the students, though subject to fierce discipline, come and go at will. Jakob, a spirited and subversive presence, keeps a journal in which he records his quirky impressions of the school, as well as his own enthusiasms and uncertainties, deliberations and dreams. And in the end,...

In an unfinished novel begun in the 1970s, painter Armando Muñoz-Roa abandons the popular artistic movement to which he belonged to retire to a Catalan village, where he attempts to struggle against the local wish for modern development.

When a baby dies in a conservative town in New Hampshire, a woman is unjustly accused of murder, a single mother of unconventional ways. Luckily for her, a New York feminist is at hand to help and she organizes her defense.