“Blair Hurley’s generous, unblinking novel, examines life in and beyond an apocalyptic religious cult, a hallmark of the American condition, the author suggests, for reasons both irrational and justifiable.”—New York Times"A remarkable exploration of...

The Marriage Plot meets The Idiot in this brilliant debut, which tells the story of a young Muslim scholar stuck in the mire of adjunct professorship in Los Angeles who decides to give up her career in academia and marry rich, committing herself to 100...

Winner of the Asian American Writers' Workshop Pages in Progress Prize"A delightful and perceptive jaunt into the heart of the Indian American community of New Jersey, Edison is a charming, often hilarious novel brimming over with life, laughter, and...

A guide to the art of journaling—and a meditation on the central questions of life—by the bestselling author of Between Two Kingdoms, with contributions from Hanif Abdurraqib, Jon Batiste, Elizabeth Gilbert, Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem, George...

Set In 1960s California, This Blockbuster Debut Is The Hilarious, Idiosyncratic And Uplifting Story Of A Female Scientist Whose Career Is Constantly Derailed By The Idea That A Woman's Place Is In The Home, Only To Find Herself Starring As The Host Of...

Fitting in at a new school is hard enough, but when you’re an awkward, big-nosed, nerdy Pakistani girl with a funny last name, it can seem impossible.Eleven-year-old Alina Butt has changed schools four times already since her family moved to England from...

In the spirit of her bestselling book Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit explores how our actions can shape the future and the liberatory possibilities of embracing uncertainty.Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can...

In this iconoclastic and sure to be contentious re-casting by a renowned critic, the great American novel Moby Dick is presented as a work that has been widely misread, an error that continues to this day. According to Barry Sanders, Herman Melville’s...

A New York Times Bestseller!A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!“Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut. . . . Memorable and tender.” — Washington PostA charming, witty and compulsively readable...

A dazzling new history of the Indian subcontinent and its diverse peoples in global context—from antiquity to todayMuch of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply...

An exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey“Trethewey doesn’t just explore the reasons why she writes. She also offers a compassionate...

This study of the writing of Roland Barthes breaks down the divide between lived experience and the language of a literary work.In The Barthes Fantastic, John Lurz explores the intersection of literature and everyday life—and confronts some habits of...

The Perturbation Of O Tells The Comic Story Of How A Loser Became A Winner With The Publication Of His Memoir, Gideon's Confession, And The Chaotic Aftermath That The Publication Of Gideon's Confession And An Encounter With Oprah Winfrey Had On Two Of...

A comprehensive biography of the celebrated author of the Decameron, a medieval masterpiece written in early Italian.Boccaccio (1313–75) stands with Dante and Petrarch as one of the “Three Crowns” of Italian letters, a trio of writers who shaped the...

“A bold, beautiful, complex novel, and I can’t wait to read what Hughes writes next. She, too, is an unstoppable force.” —New York Times Book Review“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for our...

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREYFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and...

From an award-winning author, this provocative novel tells an emotionally gripping story about friendship, family, and transgender awakening in a working-class American town.

USA Today BestsellerA Debutiful “Best Debuts of the Year”“Rich and wise, humming with confidence.” -New York Times Book Review“A knockout. Eleven knockouts. One KO for every story.”-Elizabeth McCracken“Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare is a frontrunner for...

An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue NightsIn November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a rough few years.” She described the sessions in a...

Aimé Césaire Is Arguably The Greatest Caribbean Literary Writer In History. Best Known For His Incendiary Epic Poem Notebook Of A Return To My Native Land , Césaire Reinvented Black Culture By Conceiving 'négritude' As A Dynamic And Continuous...