Chinatown and The Last Detail

Self-Portrait With Woman

“In Polish novelist Andrzej Szczypiorski’s radiant new work, the affairs of the heart and the world are not so very different. . . . He exhorts those of us who…

Second Person Singular

“With Second Person Singular, Sayed Kashua has become one of the most important contemporary Hebrew writers.” —Haaretz…

Searching for Zion

“This is a beautifully written and thought-provoking book. My head gets blown off every page. . . . Everyone [Raboteau] meets she renders with great deftness and empathy—a novelistic level…

The Seasons of the Angler

“The authors whose work Mr. Seybold has collected in this fisherman’s anthology have created an astonishing variety of effects from their basically limited means–a positive miracle of fishes.” –The Atlantic…

Rhode Island Blues

“One of Fay Weldon’s great gifts is that she can present a serious truth lightly, tossed off as a joke. . . . Rhode Island Blues is well worth reading.”…

The Record Players

From the authors of Last Night a DJ Saved My Life and How to DJ Right comes the fascinating story of dance music, straight from the mouths of the legendary…

A Really Big Lunch

A collection of essays from “the Henry Miller of food writing” (Wall Street Journal)—beloved New York Times bestselling writer Jim Harrison….

Rain on the River

“Jim’s words are his gift to the world. His life is his art; his words are merely tokens of appreciation. . . . Reading the poems and short prose ….

Purge

“A bravura work, deeply engaged with [Estonia’s] knotted history, sparing but potent in its use of irony, and containing an empathic treatment of all the miserable choices Estonians faced during…