'Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.' A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. The...

"A finer collection of poetry you couldn't hope to find . . . Wanek and Kooser revel in evocative metaphors that are deepened and appreciated with the aid of Richard Jones' hypnotic watercolors."--NPR.org A freewheeling romp through the world of imagery...

44 Poems on Being with Each Other is a new volume that offers immersive reflections on the human connection. With an observant eye, Pádraig Ó Tuama shares an enlightening meditation on each poem, revealing the ways we relate to each other, the world...

Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos...

A profound, bittersweet portrait of a Gazan immigrant's heroic efforts to heal his community and birth love from tragedy. As a financial crisis looms, Jamal "Jack" Shaban is trying to save the residents of his Chicago condo from bankruptcy. But who is...

"[A]n outrageously funny satire of race relations and racism, US history, contemporary sexual mores and behavior, academia, and the publishing industry . . . It could become a cult-classic . . . Highly recommended."--Library Journal "The story's...

"For pure, raw power of language, nobody in his generation comes close to Charlie Smith" (David Bottoms). Drawing on nine previous collections and including nearly fifty new poems, Charlie Smith's I Am Your Lifeguard marks the return of one of our most...

The year is 1991. Eritrea is on the verge of liberation from Ethiopian rule and in Washington, D.C.'s tight-knit Eritrean community, change is in the air. Thirteen-year-old Lydia and her family are grappling with what peace--after decades of war--might...

Malén Denis's Lithium is a novel about what cannot be fully named or pinned down. "Language in this book," the author notes, "acts as a pharmakon--both poison and remedy--inviting the reader to navigate its ambivalence. I wrote it by following the golden...

Following a number of moves from one shabby rental to another, they--the mother and daughter of this elusive, strangely riveting novel set in 1980s Denmark--now reside in an apartment over the hairdresser shop in the same island town where they've always...

“The searing strokes of this book remind me of the infinitude inside every life.” —Leslie JamisonParis Review Staff Pick, one of Chicago Tribune’s 25 Hot Books of Summer, and one of The A.V. Club’s 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2019A stark, elegiac...

In 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers’ strike in Estación Camarón, which became the basis of his landmark novel Human Mourning. In her own groundbreaking novel, Autobiography of Cotton, Cristina Rivera Garza...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by the Los Angeles Times, Town & Country, and Alta“Flores’s style has an exhilarating punk, D.I.Y. aplomb; it’s as if he feels he’s inventing literature for the first time.” —Mark Leyner, The New York Times Book...

The third and penultimate book in the New York Times bestselling Moonfall series from thriller-master James Rollins, A Dragon of Black Glass is a tale of relentless adventure and the struggle for survival in a harsh world that hangs by a thread.A Most...

The Future of Another Timeline meets The Bone Clocks in this dazzling piece of time-travel climate fiction.Recruited by the mysterious Project Kairos to change history and save the future from ecological disaster, Echo and Hazel are transported through...

A deft and immersive psychological suspense debut about a luxury party planner who becomes obsessed with a woman she encounters in a hospital waiting room.Cady has worked hard to have a good life. She has a thriving luxury event-planning business, the...

“This is a brilliant blending of worlds and traditions—West African lore meets Easy Rawlins—which makes for something absolutely devourable. And that’s exactly what I did. Without a doubt, this is Onyebuchi at his best!” —Jason Reynolds Fortune always...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes a legendary standalone novel that navigates the seas and the stars of a far-future Cosmere. Illustrated by Esther Hi‘ilani Candari.All his life, Sixth of the Dusk has been a traditional...