In the tradition of Colson Whitehead’s Zone One, a visionary debut novel about shelter, escape, family, violence, and dumpster-diving It’s the story of a restless group of young squatters. They’ve r
"Hettena is a first-rate reporter and wonderful story-teller, and the tale he tells here is mind-boggling."—Jane Mayer, author of New York Times bestseller Dark Money"Hettena skillfully weaves m
“[Evokes] both Jeanette Winterson and Ian McEwan . . . an elegiac and uplifting novel about the indissoluble bonds between mothers and daughters, and a reminder of how the imagination can set you free
The Freakonomics of the sociology world. this book shows how deeply irrational we humans are, and what we can do about itWhen we try to understand our world, we ask “why?” a specific event
The first-ever collection of interviews with the tortured but groundbreaking singer Billie Holiday, part of Melville House’s beloved Last Interview series Legendary singer Billie Holiday comes alive
A moody, atmospheric literary thriller and “a timeless tale of migration” (The Guardian), from one of Europe’s biggest-selling authors ? Despite its Biblical title—which comes from the opening lines o
The man Paul Auster called "A master of bewitchments" and a founder of the fiction collective returns to the novel after 20 yearsIn the spirit of "transcendent buffoonery" Curtis White's miraculous re
Health Justice Now dispels the myths around the single-payer system, and shows how we can make healthcare work for all of us. Single-payer is the tool; health justice is the goalThe sun is setting on
An undisputed French master of the fantastic—as prolific as Stephen King; as original as Philip K. Dick—now in English for the first time They call them “mediums”—professional dreamers who “dive” int
The breakout novel by Francesco Pacifico, one of Italy’s most acclaimed writers, hailed by Dana Spiotta as “brilliantly funny and weirdly subversive”Ludovica and Lorenzo live in Rome. She works in her
"The finest book on video games yet. Simon Parkin thinks like a critic, conjures like a novelist, and writes like an artist at the height of his powers—which, in fact, he is." —Tom Bissell, author of
"Read this book and learn how best to protect our democracy." --Tom Steyer, NeedToImpeach.orgConstitutional attorneys cut through the partisan rhetoric to make a clear, concise case that the US Consti
“[Evokes] both Jeanette Winterson and Ian McEwan . . . an elegiac and uplifting novel about the indissoluble bonds between mothers and daughters, and a reminder of how the imagination can set yo
From the award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Ecstasy of Influence comes a new collection of essays that celebrates a life spent in books More Alive and Less Lonely
Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about banking as the average person: almost nothing. Bankers, he thought, were ruthless, competitive, bonus-obsessed sharks, irrelevant to hi
