**Nebula Award Nominee****Hugo Award Nominee** *Featuring all-new exclusive material for the trade paperback: an author's note, reading group guide, and teaser for Wearing the Lion!* “This unusual queer romance is a heartfelt fable about disability and...

A Time Must-Read Book of the YearWinner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian NonfictionA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2025 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Finalist for the 2025 Zora AwardA bold, innovative biography...

"[R]evelatory...Deeply researched and masterfully told." --Brian Goldstone, New York Times Book Review The explosive account of the arson wave that hit the Bronx and other American cities in the 1970s--and its legacy today. "Ladies and gentlemen, the...

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEFrom the horrors of WWII to the spy games of the Cold War: a haunting tale of survival, vengeance, and the enduring shadows of history"Stunning... Every line is a jewel."--Lea Carpenter, New York TimesShlomo Libowitz and...

From the author of Ties and The House on Via Gemito ★ "Starnone's sensitivity, nuance, and subtlety are wonderful to behold."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Domenico Starnone's The Old Man by the Sea is a slim masterpiece of a novel about an 82-year-old...

Acclaimed novelist and playwright Yasmina Reza masterfully portrays the messiness of family, where affection and resentment intertwine and the weight of a shared past looms large. When adult siblings Serge, Jean, and Nana embark on an unexpected road...

WINNER of the Philip K. Dick Award for BEST Science FictionIn a near and mildly dystopic future, Francine has finally been freed from years of undiagnosed pain--a recent surgery has provided relief. Her subversive "Theory of Bastards," which has unseated...

"From the inimitable Rabih Alameddine-National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award-comes a tragicomic saga set in Lebanon, a modern story of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his mother. Across his oeuvre,...

An NPR Most Anticipated Book of Summer 2025A darkly funny, heart-wrenching satire that tears through the guts of the war news industry.Catch-22 on speed and set in the Middle East, Vulture is a fast-paced satire of the war news industry and a tragi-comic...

In this propulsive crime novel from Edgar Award nominee Ken Jaworowski, three lives collide in a gritty rust-belt town--a single mother covering up a deadly mistake, a young man on a mission to honor a dying wish, and a musician racing to escape a...

A long-awaited and much-anticipated biography of one of the great modern poets.In 1933, on his seventieth birthday, the poet Constantine Cavafy died in an Alexandrian hospital, surrounded by friends. He left behind a small, curated oeuvre of 154 poems,...

“A pulse-pounding plot propels a narrative steeped in the language and culture of tech bros….An exciting and timely debut of an original voice.” —People, Best Books of the Month A hotshot hedge fund employee must risk everything to save his job—and his...

An eye-opening account about what we get wrong on sex and gender—and how we can be both sex smart and thoughtful. “Doriane Coleman presents a serious blueprint for common ground on matters of sex and gender, bringing compassion and intelligence to one of...

Built on the grounds of a former cotton plantation, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, offered agricultural and industrial education as a strategy for Black self-determination. There--and in many other communities in the U.S. South,...

A surprising history of human hair in nineteenth-century America, where length, texture, color, and coiffure became powerful indicators of race, gender, and national belonging.Hair is always and everywhere freighted with meaning. In nineteenth-century...

The weakening of the federal courts⎯and how they can restore their power and Americans' access to justice⎯told through the lives of three remarkable judges.   Despite the outsize public attention paid to the Supreme Court, federal trial courts are at the...

The first book to center Black artists' voices on Black aesthetics, revealing a century of evolving relationships to race, identity, and art.   What is Black art? No one has thought harder about that question than Black artists, yet their perspectives...

An eloquent and moving story about the value and the pleasures of intellectual exploration—and why it matters beyond the classroom.   At a time when college students and their parents often question the "return on investment" from humanities courses,...

The first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery.   Karl Marx’s writings on enslavement and labor have fallen out of favor among historians, but David McNally injects new life into them. Slavery and Capitalism gives...

From the author of The Lindbergh Nanny comes an evocative mystery about the 1920 murder of the gambler Joseph Elwell, featuring New Yorker writer Morris Markey and Zelda Fitzgerald.New York, 1920.Zelda Fitzgerald is bored, bored, bored. Although she’s...