An entrancing new novel by the author of the prizewinning Grief Is the Thing with FeathersThere’s a village an hour from London. It’s no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick
His father never took Justin to Hawaii or Disneyland or Mount Rushmore Instead, he would load up the bed of his pickup with camping gear and they would drive to Christmas Valley or the Umpqua River o
Formal and a little defensive in his encounters with curious locals, Eric Loesch starts renovating a rundown house in the small, upstate New York town of his childhood. When he inspects the title to
We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and one of the first days of Jul
It's where you sit down that determines everything in life.Sarah's aunt Edna paints portraits of chairs. Not people in chairs, just chairs. The old house is filled with the paintings, and the chairs
In this singular collection, John D'Agata takes a literary tour of lyric essays written by the masters of the craft. Beginning with 1975 and John McPhee's ingenious piece, "The Search for Marvin Gard
William Stafford (1914-1993) was an earnest, perceptive, and often affecting American poet who filled his life and ours with poetry of challenge and consolation. The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
Otherwise collects a lifetime's work of poetry by one of our most cherished poets. Opening with twenty poems and including generous selections from Jane Kenyon's four previous books-- From Room to Ro
A"Albert Goldbarth is . . . a contemporary genius with the language itself . . . There is simply no contemporary poet like him.A"A--David Baker, The Kenyon Review&
An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United StatesWhen Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other PartiesIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relation
A spellbinding novel about transience and mortality, by one of the most original voices in American literatureThe Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somew
A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history—a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s formationWayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’
A landmark anthology envisioned by Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United StatesAmerican Journal presents fifty contemporary poems that explore and celebrate our country and our lives. Poet Laure
“This is the rare debut that introduces not a promising talent but a major writer, fully formed.” —Garth GreenwellIn the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to s
The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United StatesEven the men in black armor, the onesJangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they so buffered against
Has the hoax now moved from the sideshow to take the center stage of American culture?Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, an
A unique anthology that illuminates the history and the art of translating poetry into EnglishInto English presents poems, translations, and commentaries in an extraordinary format for readers to exp
“One of the finest poets of the last fifty years.” —Saltto the Nth, like the truth of an endingunskeined across the crust of the white field.Though it happened only once, Iam sending the thoughtof the
A page-turning new novel from the author of Livability, winner of the Oregon Book AwardThe Singers, an all-American family in the California style, are about to lose everything. Anne is a bureaucrat i
A magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life, by a genius of realism Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them away from home, and each of them strivin
Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his wildly inventive, romantic novels as well as several brilliant, uncategorizable works of nonfiction. Al
"In this provocative 'cri de coeur,' the philosopher John Armstrong rescues the idea of civilization from irrelevance and connects it to our search for individual happiness. 'Civilization' once referr
New poetry by the acclaimed writer Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and The Ticking Is the Bombelectrocution, nothe boy stood in the hot-hot room stammering I did stamm
The ambitious, combative, and spot-on new poetry book by Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of the award-winning The Maverick RoomNaturally, this will scare the civil rights out of some and, for a mad-momen
An enthralling novel of a mother and son's turbulent relationship from the author of Out Stealing HorsesIt is 1989: Communism is crumbling, and Arvid Jansen, thirtyseven, is facing his first divorce.
THE RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION BY EAMON GRENNAN, WHOSE POETRY “ILLUMINATES, CLARIFIES, AND DIRECTS OUR GAZE TOWARD WHAT IT IS WE LOVE BUT OFTEN OVERLOOK” (THENEWYORKER)Out of Sight collects
Poems by the author of Elegy, Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry The goblet mouth on the table speaks To your thirst, saying, Longing, your longing, is infinite.&n
In the spring of 2007, a brilliant and well-known computer programmer named Hans Reiser stands accused of murdering his beautiful, estranged wife, Nina. Despite a mountain of circumstantial evidence
John D'Agata leaves no tablet unturned in his exploration of the roots of the essay. In this exploration of the roots of the essay. In this soaring anthology, he takes the reader from ancient Mesopot
A celebrated international author, listed among the “21 top writers for the 21st century” (The Observer, U.K.)As David Imaz, on the threshold of adulthood, divides his time between
I was fourteen and a half when the Germans came. On that 9th April we woke to the roar of aeroplanes swooping so low over the roofs of the town that we could see the black iron crosses painted on the
A brilliant debut novel about a single day in 1953 as lived by six people at an ohio carnivalA small, incongruous man receives an excruciating piece of news. His son has died in a POW camp in Korea.
The Water Cure is the chilling confession of a victim turned villain. Ishmael Kidder is a successful romance novelist. His agent is coming to visit her usually productive client. But Kidder's eleven-
Jane Kenyon is considered one of America’s best contemporary poets. Her previous collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, published just after her death in 1995, has been a favorite amo
Drawing upon his collection of quirky antique postcards, Lawrence Sutin has penned a series of brief but intense reminiscences of his "ordinary" life. In the process he creates an unrepentant, wholly
Have women finally moved beyond the status of cultural outsiders to become full participants in American poetry and its criticism? In By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry, contemporary women poets reconsi
A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in IndiaJohn Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalayas. Michael Spender was the first to survey th
From War Memorials by Clint McCown: At first the lizard was just one more source of tension between us. Laney bought it secondhand from some woman down in Huntsville who said it kept her cockroach pro
