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...

Two lives spiral into a chaotic, fatal pas de deux during a weekend of sex, alcohol and violence—from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives seriesYears ago, Jesse Robinson and Kriss Cummings had a passionate weekend in Chicago, but they haven’t...

You know how they live. This is how they die...A STUNNING DEBUT FROM YOUR NEXT FAVORITE MYSTERY WRITER • Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's—catered with cocaine and expensive champagne. The morning after,...

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Now in a new edition with a foreword by Rumaan Alam, a modern classic from one of Australia’s greatest writers • "It’s high time American readers knew her generous, category-defying imagination."—New York...

Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of BlondeA brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds...

A TIME AND WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might—together—come to a new view of our shared past“A...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the very nature of consciousness. “Fantastical, mysterious, and funny . . . a fantasy world that might have...

Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The City Broils Through A Mid-summer Heat Wave. Marilyn Monroe Ods. A B-movie Starlet Is Kidnapped. The Overhyped Lapd Overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's Looking For Some Getback. The Monroe Deal Looks Like A Moneymaker. He...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GMA BOOK CLUB PICK • AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned...

From the internationally acclaimed author, a stunning gothic reimagining of the Jekyll and Hyde story in which Captain Edward Hyde, chief detective of Victorian Edinburgh, investigates a gruesome murder that may unmask his own darkest secretVictorian...

King Solomon's Garden is an anthology of poetry and art inspired by passages in the Old Testament. Poet/scholar Laurance Wieder has selected 65 poems by such writers as Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Walt Whitman and paired them with 65 works of...

When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. Where was the crime scene?...