AN ANGOULEME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLDBrecht Evens, the award-winning author of The Wrong Place and The Making Of, returns with an unsettling graphic novel about
The untold story of the 1960 presidential election and the civil rights struggle that propelled Kennedy to the White HouseOn a Sunday evening in late October 1960, Coretta Scott King sat in the elegan
Because I can never say anythingplainly. Because I always stutterpolitely. Because there's always the chatterbefore the kiss.--from "In Need of Subtitles"In this award-winning debut,
In 1970, during the war in Viet Nam, Marchant became one of the first Marine officers ever to be honorably discharged as a conscientious objector. In the poems contained in Full Moon Boat, Marchant ex
An authoritative new history of the early American novel from a National Book Critics Circle Award finalistPhilip F. Gura’s Truth’s Ragged Edge is perhaps the first comprehensive study of the early Am
A comprehensive and enlightening history of Earth Day 1970, one of the largest and most important political events of the twentieth centuryThe first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in
A concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powersThe year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The Brit
THE HISTORY OF THE GOLD RUSH BROUGH TO LIFEThe Klondike gold rush shook the Yukon on the eve of the twentieth century and stands today as the defining era in the taming of North America and especially
Surfing in Far Rockaway, romantic obsession, and Moby-Dick converge in this winning and refreshing memoirJustin Hocking lands in New York hopeful but adrift—he's jobless, unexpectedly overwhelmed and
The first novel, in revised form, from “possibly the best living writer in Britain” (The Daily Telegraph)In The Colour of Memory, six friends plot a nomadic course through their mid-twenties as they s
A collection of new poems explores what is real and worthy of man's attention, looking to the natural world and the possibilities of love, family, and beauty as sustaining forces.
“A short, brilliant novel, The Search offers more in 150 pages than most books twice that length.” —The GuardianWalker meets Rachel at a glamorous party by the bay. When she turns up at his apartment
In Taking the Path of Zen, Robert Aitken provided a concise guide to zazen (Zen meditation) and other aspects of the practice of Zen. In The Mind of Clover he addresses the world beyond the zazen cush
A celebration of Tove Jansson’s legacy, one hundred years after her birthTove Jansson’s Moomin stories made her one of the most beloved Scandinavian authors of the twentieth century. Jansson’s whimsic
A masterful new novel from Per Petterson, who “provides one of literature’s greatest gifts . . . a welcome refuge from our cacophonous world” (NPR)Per Petterson’s hotly anticipated new novel, I Refuse
The heartwarming debut that brought Per Petterson, the author of the highly acclaimed Out Stealing Horses, to prominenceYoung Arvid Jansen lives on the outskirts of Oslo. It’s the early sixties; his f
A dazzling philosophical investigation of the challenge of living in the present, by a brilliant practitioner of the new essayIn her third book, which continues to define the contours of the contempor
The eagerly awaited new poetry collection by Mary Jo Bang, winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardWe were told that the cloud cover was a blanketabout to settle into the shape of the presentw
A moving and revealing exploration of ultra-Orthodox Judaism and one man's loss of faithShulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most ins
