The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' AwardWHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I
A chilling, wildly original novel from a major new voice from South KoreaThe Impossible Fairy Tale is the story of two unexceptional grade-school girls. Mia is “lucky”—she is spoiled by her mother and
The brilliant first novel in the Encircling Trilogy, a searing psychological portrait of a man by his friendsDavid has lost his memory. When a newspaper ad asks his friends and family to share their
“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
An astounding work of doubles by Albert Goldbarth, “a dazzling virtuoso who can break your heart” (Joyce Carol Oates)Albert Goldbarth’s first book of essays in a decade, The Adventures of Form and Con
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
A meditation on time, violence, and chance by "one of America's most dazzling poets" (O, The Oprah Magazine)Fanny Howe's The Needle's Eye: Passing through Youth is a sequence of essays, shor
A witty, philosophical novel by the author of the internationally bestsellingIn Times of Fading LightSometimes a cat comes into your life when you least expect it.An unnamed writer finds himself in Ca
Donika Kelly's fierce debut collection, winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry PrizeI thought myself lion and serpent. Thoughtmyself body enough for two, for we.Found comfort in never being lonely.What
A sweeping novel of World War II, set in the Ardennes, from the acclaimed author ofChild WonderThe Ardennes, a forested, mountainous borderland that spans France, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg, was
Bold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read--in any genre--from the bestselling author ofThe Dead LandsAnyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy's career will surely have noticed a
"Few poets are as generous as Eamon Grennan in the sheer volume of delight his poems convey." --Billy Collins. . . there goes the sudden shriekof the blackbird . . . all alive inside the inh
A dazzling, spellbinding novel set in a mythical Jewish community by the acclaimed author of the New York Times Notable BookThe Book of MischiefIt's the late 1960s. The Pinch, once a thriving Jewish c
A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertilityWhen Belle Boggs's "The Art of Waiting" was published in Orion in 2012, it went viral, leadin
The brilliant new collection by Monica Youn following Ignatz, a finalist for the National Book Awardthe trees all planted in the same month after the same fireeach thick aroundas a man’s wristmeticulo
Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, a novel about violence, love, and religion in modern India On a train bound for the seaside town of Jarmuli, known for its temples, three elderly women meet a you
Angela Palm grew up in a place not marked on the map, in a house set on the banks of a river that had been straightened to make way for farmland. Every year, the Kankakee River in rural Indiana floode
In the waning years of the Soviet Union, a sad young Finnish woman boards a train in Moscow. Bound for Mongolia, she's trying to put as much space as possible between her and a broken relationship. Wa
One has to look no further than the audiences hungry for the narratives served up byDownton Abbey or Wolf Hall to know that the lure of the past is as seductive as ever. But incorporating historical e
Daily I sitwith the languagethey've madeof our languageto NEUTRALIZEthe CAPABILITY of LOW DOLLAR VALUE ITEMslike you.You are what is referred to asa "CASUALTY."--from "Personal Effects&
The not-at-all-everyday new poetry collection by Albert Goldbarth, twice winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award I brought a book of many words to an emptiness in my heart, and I sho
The U.S. debut of leading U.K. author David Szalay, named one of The Daily Telegraph’s twenty best British novelists under fortyJames is a man with a checkered past—sporadic entrepreneur, one-time fil
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
Brief, jagged, haiku-like, Jim Moore's poems in Invisible Strings observe time moving past us moment by moment. In that accrual, line by line, is the anxiety and acceptance of aging, the mounting los
A blistering collection of stories from an exhilarating new voiceOne man kills another after neither will move his pickup truck from the road. A female sheriff in a flooded town attempts to cover up
Now available in paperback, the award-winning retrospective by Linda Gregg, one of the best poets in America” (Gerald Stern)Worlds out of time still exist. Worlds of achievement out of mi
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
As 1944 comes to a close, nine-year-old Raj is unaware of the war devastating the rest of the world. He lives in Mauritius, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, where survival is a daily struggle for
Ghosts lurk in the bamboo forest outside the tiny northern Japanese town where Satomi lives with her elusive mother, Atsuko. A preternaturally gifted pianist, Satomi wrestles with inner demons. Her f
David Rivard's new poetry collection describes the many powers---psychological and historical---that flow through people's lives in acts of faith, greed, pleasure, celebrity, gossip, and consolation.
With humor and the serious collector's delight, Gary Jackson imagines the comic-book worlds of Superman, Batman, and the X-Men alongside the veritable worlds of Kansas, racial isolation, and the grav
A new collection of prophetic essays from one of the sharpest practitioners of the formMark Slouka writes from a particular vantage point, one invoked by Thoreau, who wished to improve the nick
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
In this groundbreaking memoir, Stephen Elliott pursues parallel investigations: a gripping account of a notorious San Francisco murder trial, and an electric exploration of the self. Destined to be a
We crave radiance in this austere world, light in the spiritual darkness. Learning is the one perfect religion, its path correct, narrow, certain, straight. At its end it blossoms and billows into va
An evocative reimagining of a World War II civilian disasterOn a March night in 1943, on the steps of a London Tube station, 173 people die in a crowd seeking shelter from another air raid. When the
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.
