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So many great novels in the Western canon began as mere magazine stories. In this amazing collection, editor William Abrahams brings the best liter...

A superb collection of inventive, full-bodied stories representing the very best in American and Canadian fiction.Established early in the last cen...

For the past three decades, William Abrahams has  selected the O. Henry Award winners. Building on  a tradition that spans over three quarters of a...

Established in 1918 as a memorial to O. Henry, this annual literary tradition has presented a remarkable offering of stories over its 76-year histo...

A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. H...

An arresting collection of contemporary fiction at its best, these stories explore a vast range of subjects, from love and deception to war and th...

The seventy-ninth anniversary of this annual collection of short stories "widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction...

Now celebrating its centenary, this prestigious annual anthology gathers the twenty best new short stories published in the previous year. An Ancho...

A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionFrom the moment Chief Justice Roberts botched Barack Obama's oath of office, the relationship between t...

On a sunny beach on the Italian Riviera, two thirtysomething women, Yvonne and Huda, relax by the sparkling sea. But despite the setting, as their ...

The most important contribution to our understanding of the French Revolution was written almost one hundred years ago by Alexis de Tocqueville.Ale...

This book is based on talks by Ram Dass at the Menninger Foundation in 1970 and at the Spring Grove Hospital in Maryland in 1972. The text grew out...

From King Lear to the Tragedy of Carmen, from Marat/Sade to the epic Mahabharata, Peter Brook has reinvented modern theatre, not once but again and...

Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women. ...

In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman's extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the stor...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Calling all animal lovers! A heartwarming memoir about one woman's career as a vet and the unique role pets play in our...

Bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of this country's foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race. In this gripping and ultimately pr...

In Berlin, two former French intelligence agents hire Klaus Reiner, a ruthlessly effective hit man, to eliminate an American industrialist vacation...

On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical g...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Once he was a well-liked, well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm. Then Patrick Lanigan stole nin...

This fascinating portrait of two of the most brilliant theater artists of the twentieth century—and the women who made their work possible—is set a...

With the same masterly touch that made The Last Station so powerful, Jay Parini penetrates the mind and soul of another literary titan. Through the...

This bestselling biography of one of the 20th century's most remarkable and controversial writers is now available in paperback.  Author Barbara Br...

A startling look at one of this century's most influential philosophers, the book chronicles every stage of Foucault's personal and professional od...