The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a...

Paedyn and Kai battle with duty and desire in this highly anticipated second installment in the sizzling and epic romantic fantasy trilogy that’s packed with spicy tension and edge-of-your-seat betrayal.The kingdom of Ilya is in turmoil… After surviving...

"Virtuosic ... glorious in its exploration." —The New York TimesA singular and powerful debut novel about a young black American learning the difficulties of forming your own identity when society has already assigned you oneLike most recent college...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBestselling author Linda Castillo returns with Outsider, an electrifying thriller about a woman on the run hiding among the Amish.While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, Amish widower Adam Lengacher discovers...

On the verge of retirement, Frank Baldwin finds his chances for a peaceful life disrupted by his insane son's violent tendencies

"[The] biography that needed to be written, an attempt to set the record straight and clear the air."―The New York Times Book Review Although Ted Hughes ended his days as England's beloved poet laureate, his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. He...

A twisting, pulse-pounding thriller from Freida McFadden, the New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker "You must be our new neighbors!" Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile...

WINNER OF THE WILLIE MORRIS AWARD FOR SOUTHERN WRITING - FICTION "Jamie Quatro is a writer of sinuous, muscular power and grace. Two-Step Devil is a starkly gorgeous story of God and loss and art and love, and her best book yet." --Lauren Groff From a...

“Extraordinary . . . [Bolaño’s] greatest work.” —James Wood, The New York Times The book that catapulted Roberto Bolaño into international literary stardom, By Night in Chile is the final testimony of Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix—Chilean priest and member...

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award!A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee!One of Esquire's Best Horror Books of the Year!An Indie Next Pick!"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight...

A feminist paean to perversity: on remaking intimacy outside the Republic of Gender.Seasonal begins writing sentences and thinking thoughts they never thought possible. They want to give László the pleasure of being nothing. The more they come to like...

A touchstone novel of lesbian adolescence, set years before gay liberation.“Dear Miss Maxfield … what I’m really afraid of is that I am a homosexual human being. I wish you were one too but I don’t think it’s possible there could be so many in one...

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Hemingway’s masterpiece—a classic novel of World War I that is also a tender, haunting love storyErnest Hemingway drew from his own war experiences when he crafted this remarkable story of an American...

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts.In this influential extended essay, Woolf outlines what women need in order to fully make use of their innate abilities...

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers.“An invaluable addition to...

The journals of the Nobel Prize–winning author, beautifully illustrated with his own paintingsFor many years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small notebooks and illustrating them with his own paintings...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY EDWARD BERGER AND STARRING RALPH FIENNES, STANLEY TUCCI, JOHN LITHGOW, AND ISABELLA ROSSELLINI • NOMINATED FOR AN ACADEMY AWARD® FOR BEST PICTURE • The page-turning thriller set in the Vatican's secretive halls of...

In this knockout standalone crime novel from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a white cop’s murderous outburst leads to a pulse-pounding chase to silence a witnessIt’s early morning in New York, a few days after Christmas and bitter...