Wetlands

“With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel’s eighteen-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national…

We Gotta Get Out of This Place

“[I]n her vivid, impassioned history of women in rock, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, music journalist Gerri Hirshey takes a long, hard, and lively look at girl groups…

Walking to Hollywood

“Self’s ultimate vision . . . is described in dazzling bursts of verbal pyrotechnics. . . . The language here is as rich as Vladimir Nabokov’s, the rage as deep…

Walk the Blue Fields

“The best stories here are so textured and moving, so universal but utterly distinctive, that it’s easy to imagine readers savoring them many years from now. And to imagine critics,…

Visiting Edna & Good for Otto

A collection of two groundbreaking new plays by Tony Award–winning dramatist David Rabe, exploring aging and mental health in modern America.

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Death of an Ordinary Man

“Death of An Ordinary Man plays like an answer to the The Lovely Bones . . . . In this superb, uncoercively moving novel, the afterlife is the place where…

Up Through the Water

“Beautifully written . . . a seamless and almost instinctive prose that often reads more like poetry than fiction.” –Robert Olmstead, The New York Times Book Review…

The Unknown Terrorist

“In this stunning and brilliant and roaring book he shouts the question loudly to be heard in every nation ranged against brooding Bin Laden and his teams of killers: Is…

Two Guys from Verona

“Kaplan’s novel is a view of suburban life as David Lynch might imagine it: as banal as a mini-mall, yet seething with anxiety, eroticism and violence. Novels don’t come any…