A superb early postmodern classic by one of Nabokov’s fellow émigré writers, rediscovered after more than half a century"This psychological novel takes stock of death, war, violence and the guilt that undergirds it all." — The New York Times Book Review...

Winner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction • Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize • Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 NEW YORK TIMES...

Christianity figured prominently in the imperial and colonial exploitation and dispossession of indigenous peoples worldwide, yet many indigenous people embrace Christian faith as part of their cultural and ethnic identities.A Chosen People, a Promised...

What is it about “the homosexual” that incites vitriolic rhetoric and violence around the world? How and why do some people hate queers? Does homophobia operate differently across social, political, and economic terrains? What are the ambivalences in...

How do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapse--and at what cost? Street Sovereigns explores the risks and rewards taken by young men on the margins of urban Haiti who broker relations with politicians, state agents, and NGO...

November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut themselves loose from their parachutes--only to be met by loincloth-wearing natives silently materializing out...

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How can neighbours that are side by side geographically be so far apart politically, culturally, ideologically, and economically? In the summer of 1968, Mary Soderstrom and her husband loaded up their VW Beetle and immigrated to Canada from the United...

"The Californians is an absolute pleasure from end to end, a thrilling, century-spanning, wholly American tale of art and money, family and land, treasure and time....A brilliant read for fans of Anthony Doerr, Dana Spiotta, and Don DeLillo."--Matt...

What if one day of rest could transform your entire life?One of the most important biblical mandates, so significant that it numbers among the Ten Commandments, is the directive to observe a weekly day of rest. The Shabbat Effect illuminates how the...

En ocasión del 50 aniversario de la publicación de Cien años de soledad, llega una edición con ilustraciones inéditas de la artista chilena Luisa Rivera y con una tipografía creada por el hijo del autor, Gonzalo García Barcha.Una edición conmemorativa de...

"The Sin of Abbé Mouret tells the compelling story of the young priest Serge Mouret. Striving after spiritual purity and sanctity, he lives a life of constant prayer, but his neglect of all physical needs leads to serious illness, followed by amnesia. No...

An ordinary man discovers a hidden world of wondrous supernatural creatures—and an unexpected home—in this enchanting contemporary fantasy debut.Green trips on the curb, falls flat into the street, and sees the city bus speeding toward him. And then . . ...

In this propulsive debut, a Buffalo Bills cheerleader will stop at nothing to solve the disappearance of her best friend and teammate, navigating the dark underbelly of a hardscrabble city, the grime and glamour of professional cheerleading, and her own...

An acclaimed author and psychoanalyst shares moving true stories from his practice to explore the central question of our lives: how do we find and keep love?In these brief, powerful accounts drawn from his more than thirty-five years counselling...

A kaleidoscopic portrait of a modern American family—steadfast, complicated, begrudging, and loving—from the bestselling author of IsolaWas this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty-year feud? In the Rubinstein family, it could go either...

A searching, incisive, and profound debut collection of stories about people—mothers, fathers, sons, strangers, sisters—living in the aftermath of violence. What good is it to know what things are, what lies beneath the appearance of them? It is nothing...

A powerful exploration of the books created by Jewish Holocaust survivors to honor their lost worldBy the close of World War II, six million Jews had been erased from the face of the earth. Those who eluded death had lost their homes, families, and...

In conversation with collections like John Ashbery's Some Trees and Wallace Stevens's Harmonium, Punishment Bag is a daring poetry debut that carves its own unsettling territory.Jake Fournier’s Punishment Bag asserts that poetry ought to exceed its...

A deeply moving family story unfolding in richly evocative prose and a poetic portrayal of a town in decline during the final decades of the American century, Ashland is a book of metamorphoses--of the dance between permanence and transformation. In...