"One of the greatest achievements of modern literature."--Richard Howard "A major achievement ... Genet transforms experiences of degradation into spiritual exercises and hoodlums into bearers of the majesty of love."-Saturday Review "Genet can use a...

An array of New Yorkers become involved with a mom-and-pop cigar shop in Brooklyn in an acclaimed short story, presented here along with interviews with the author and the film's actors and a description of the process of creating a film. Original. Movie...

A captivating examination of artifice and reality, privacy and exposure from a Forward Prize-winning poetThe 72 poems in Kim Kardashian's Marriage mark out equally sharpened lines of public and private engagement. Kim Kardashian's 2011 marriage lasted...

Alistair Paperson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 48-49) And Index.

Sergeant Alex Jensen has his work cut out for him when he is called in to investigate the deaths of leading competitors in Alaska's famous dogsled race

When she accidentally kills her neighbor, Coventry Dakin, a suburban housewife, hides among the homeless in London, where Dodo, a bag lady, offers her help

The violence of life in Gaza which has taken on immense proportions for the whole world to see is intimately rendered here in a human story of resistance and resilience. In the tradition of Palestinian women writers, Asmaa Alatawna has gifted us a novel...

Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2023 by Time (#1), Vulture, and Publishers Weekly, and one of the Best Books of 2023 by The New York Times, the New Yorker, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Esquire, the Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, Lit Hub, and...

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A captivating collection of ghost stories from "one of the most gifted writers working today" (New York Times), Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky. In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette...

"What raises Deighton's genre to art is not only his absorbing characters but his metaphoric grace, droll wit, command of technical detail . . . and sure sense of place."--Washington Post Peter and Paul Winter, sons of a German businessman, are bonded by...

With a foreword by John BergerI Could Read the Sky is a collaboration, in the shape of a lyrical novel, between writer Timothy O'Grady and photographer Steve Pyke.It tells the story of a man coming of age in the middle of this century. Now at its end, he...

Prater Violet

“Is there any living poet with as skilled . . . an ear?" (McSweeney's). The answer resounds: Muldoon is a true original.Since his 1973 debut, New Weather, Paul Muldoon has created some of the most original and memorable poetry of the past half century...

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD | FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY“This is an incredibly powerful book of poetry that is also fiction but it is so real, and singular, as to defy definition, and I defy anyone to read it and come away...

In 1910, Count Leo Tolstoy, the most famous writer in the world, is caught in the struggle between his devoted wife and an equally devoted acolyte over the master's legacy. Sofya Andreyevna fears that she and the children she has borne Tolstoy will lose...