Chris Kraus

• 1998
• / Fantasy

A self-described failed filmmaker falls obsessively in love with her theorist-husband's colleague: a manifesto for a new kind of feminism and the power of first-person narration.In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & A...

• Mar-2006
• / General Fiction

Sylvie wanted to believe that misery could simply be replaced with happiness. Time was a straight line, stretching out before you. If you could create a golden kind of time and lay it right beside the other time, the time of horror, Bad History co...

• Aug-2012
• / General Fiction

Baudrillard meets Breaking Bad in this stark and bleakly hilarious novel about a descent into an underclass world of born-again Christianity, self-help, and crack.

“In his journal, Paul liked to make lists: What he ordered from Comm...

• Aug-2013
• / General Fiction

A novel about failure, empathy, and sadness, with a cast of characters that includes Simone Weil, Paul Thek, and the author herself.

First published in 2000, Chris Kraus's second novel, Aliens & Anorexia, defined a female form of cha...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction

Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. The media storm that surrounded Kathy Acker's books was ...

• Jul-2022
• / General Fiction

The European bestseller, an epic of two brothers, brought together and divided by betrayal, secrecy and self-delusion, spanning seventy years of German history: from the Russian Revolution, to World War II, to 1975....

• Oct-2025
• / Literary

“Chris Kraus reinvents the true-crime novel.” -- The New Yorker“The intelligence and honesty and total originality of Chris Kraus make her work not just great but indispensable…I read everything Chris Kraus writes; she softens despair with h...