Arkansas

“John Brandon’s remarkable first novel will blow away a certain readership. . . . Arkansas rants against the machine in a voice combining Raymond Chandler’s side-of-the-mouth noir with Quentin Tarantino’s…

Ends and Odds

“In the realms of annihilation, the writing of Samuel Beckett rises like a Miserere from all mankind, it’s muffled minor key sounding liberation to the oppressed and comfort to those…

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

The legendary unpublished collaboration between William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, a hard-boiled crime novel about a shocking murder at the dawn of the Beat Generation.

All the Trouble in the World

“One of the funniest, most insightful, dead-on-the-money books of the year.” –Los Angeles Times…

Adios Hemingway

“An elegantly turned meditation on the cold realities of age, the waning of strength and beauty and the production of literary myth. . . . Adios Hemingway reads cleanly and…

Valley of the Dolls

“Decades ahead of its time . . . Mesmerizing . . . The equation of emotional dependencies with drug addiction in one comprehensive personality disorder is, if anything, more chic…

Al-Jazeera

“A detailed, absorbing look at the organization, the world it covers and the international media. . . . In describing Al Jazeera’s rise, Miles illuminates the shaky balance the channel…

Ayiti

The powerful debut collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience from New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, now widely available for the first time in Grove Press paperback….

Bankei Zen

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.