Forensics

Internationally bestselling crime writer Val McDermid picks up the scalpel to uncover the secrets of forensic science, from the crime scene to the courtroom.

For All Mankind

“Irresistible yarns . . . underlined by the great courage of men who trusted machines, risked all and won. Hurt models their war stories into one grand collective voyage.” –Chicago…

Ficciones

“Borges’s composed, carefully wrought, gnarled style is at once the means of his art and its object—his way of ordering and giving meaning to the bizarre and terrifying world he…

The Explorers

Doom Fox

“Iceberg Slim is a major creative influence on so many musicians and writers working outside the bland mainstream. . . . Slim always told it as it was, without compromise.”…

An Explorer’s Notebook

From internationally acclaimed scientist Tim Flannery, captivating essays and articles on the wonders of the natural world.

Empire of the Senseless

Kathy Acker continues her post-modern explorations with a story set in a bleak world where the society we know is dying in its own ruins.

The Adding Machine

A reissue of Burroughs’s selected essays, covering thirty years of writing, touching on subjects ranging from literature to the meaning of life, and providing valuable insight into Burroughs’s own work….

Elephant Rocks

“The music of these poems is every bit as seductive as their reasoning. Her thinking flaunts the plush, irresistible textures of organic growth; we’d no sooner disagree with it than…

Eighty-Sixed

“Wickedly fun . . . [Eighty-Sixed] stands out for its frankness, ferocious wit and total lack of sentimentality or self-pity. . . . A harrowing first-person account of gay life…