Death by Leisure

“With dry British wit, [Ayres] skewers American greed, L.A. life, and his own endless romantic foibles . . . Somehow, Ayres knew the fall was coming and kept going anyway….

Artemisia

“The most comprehensive treatment ever [of Artemisia] in a new book that is already an international best-seller.” –Vanity Fair…

Wrestling with Zion

“What is so very, very valuable about Wrestling With Zion is that it has given [the writers] a forum to say all of these things where they need not be…

Washington’s Immortals

From a bestselling military historian, the story of the Revolutionary War told through a band of brothers whose actions at key battles from Brooklyn to Yorktown changed the course of…

Essays in Zen Buddhism

The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett

“Ackerley and Gontarski have amassed an amazing amount of information about Samuel Beckett and his works, which constitutes The Grove Companion. The volume will prove useful to everyone–from the neophyte…

Weight

Condemned to shoulder the world, for ever, by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man…

The Possessed

From “a master of verbal burlesque [and] a connoisseur of psychological blackmail” (John Updike), Witold Gombrowicz’s harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now in a new, authoritative English…

Freeman’s: Change

Featuring thrilling new work from Lauren Groff, Ocean Vuong, Rickey Laurentiis, and more, the latest installment of the acclaimed literary journal Freeman’s explores the hope and pain of the ever-changing…

Hapgood

Tom Stoppard’s thrilling comic espionage story of a female British spymaster, examining motherhood, quantum mechanics, and the dualities of personality and perception