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Three Plays by Kaufman and Hart

by George Kaufman

“Kaufman and Hart may be the American comic successors to Moli’re. These three plays are still delightfully heady comedy which should bring delight to readers. . . . The comedic…

The Race for the Triple Crown

by Joe Drape

…that make the sport of kings endlessly fascinating. The Race for the Triple Crown is an absorbing read and should not be missed.”–Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabuiscuit: An American Legend…

Man Gone Down

by Michael Thomas

…novel, Man Gone Down is the story of a young Black father in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream he has bargained on since…

Logic

by Olympia Vernon

“Yes, in the land of American Idol and The Bachelor, there remains a segment of the public that relishes experimental fiction that challenges the heart and the mind. Vernon’s second…

A Few Stout Individuals

by John Guare

“Vivacious. Individuals is . . . so unmistakably the product of Mr. Guare’s exotic yet very American imagination.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times…

Barney Rosset

…For the next sixteen years, Evergreen introduced many world-class writers to American readers, such as Beckett, Genet, Grass, Ōe, Duras, Paz, Walcott, Nabokov. The journal published until 1973, and was…

Aquarium

by David Vann

…York Times), “a truly great writer” (Irish Sunday Independent), “one of the best writers of his generation” (Le Figaro)—and, quite possibly, the greatest American author you have yet to discover….

Baumgartner

by Paul Auster

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and “one of the great American prose stylists of our time” (New York Times)…

The Black Minutes

by Martín Solares

“A breathless, marvelous first novel . . . This is Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest . . . a literary masterpiece masquerading as a police procedural and…

Evensong

by Stewart O'Nan

Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize 2026 “Stewart O’Nan has been one of the best chroniclers of the lives of American women.”—Susan Straight An intimate, moving novel that follows…