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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…

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)…

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…

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…

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….

The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

by Tom Spanbauer

…it is dark, full of fictional and philosophical pleasures, a quirky, unsettling look at American history and a vision quest in the grand old tradition.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review…

Kill Hole

by Jamake Highwater

“An extremely literate compelling fiction about timeless human dilemmas. . . . A Native American answer not only to Kafka’s The Trial but Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and Albert…

David Mamet

David Mamet is the author of the plays Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award), American Buffalo, A Life in the Theater, Speed-the-Plow,…

The Toughest Indian in the World

by Sherman Alexie

“Alexie reveals himself to be a more fearless writer than one might ever have imagined; the stories are bold, uncensored, raucous, and sexy.” –Ken Foster, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review…

Painted Horses

by Malcolm Brooks

A big, enthralling debut novel of America in its ascendance, of history versus modernity, and a love story of the West, Painted Horses introduces an extraordinary new literary voice….