Emmanuelle

“Lyrical and graphic . . . It’s not all salacious play-by-play. . . . The book’s argument reverberates beyond the erotic.” —Teddy Wayne, NPR…

Chinatown and The Last Detail

Book of Clouds

“The opening is a knockout. . . . Aridjis beautifully captures Tatiana’s conflicting sense of certainty and impossibility . . . in this novel of ideas.” —Kirkus Reviews…

The Diary of Petr Ginz

“Given his unprecedented situation, his words were unprecedented. He was creating new language. He was creating life. . . . By repairing the dictionary, he was repairing the world. ….

By its Cover

Commissario Guido Brunetti must question his own assumptions about culture, virtue, and class in order to solve a shocking case of rare book theft from a Venetian library.

Eight Days at Yalta

Meticulously researched and vividly written, published on the 75th anniversary of the historic Yalta conference, Eight Days at Yalta is the definitive new history of the meeting that reordered the…

Big Girls Don’t Cry

“Weldon’s clever comparisons of yesterday’s mores to today’s spice up this bubbling feminist brew, offering a study of the costs and consequences of the idealistic life that is sharp, funny,…

The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman

“A bona fide literary event.” –Newsweek…

The Book of J

“A great book . . . Rosenberg has produced a superb piece of translation . . . Bloom wrestles with the Angel of Literature, and walks away with the Blessing.”…

Budapest 1900

“John Lukacs is in many ways an old-fashioned chronicler, an “impressionistic historian” as he himself says at one point, evoking with considerable artistry the vibrant colors, pungent smells and melancholy…