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Sergei Dovlatov's subtle, dark–edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects—the items he brought...

The Tattooed Heart finds June Grey dreaming a summer alone with her grandmother in a large isolated house at Grey's Neck on the Long Island shore. ...

Compiled by Gina Berriault's daughter and by her long–time companion, Leonard Gardner, this collection opens with five stories, including, "The Fig...

"Barthelme . . . happens to be one of a handful of American authors, there to make us look bad, who know instinctively how to stash the merchandise...

When Robert Lescher died in 2012 an unpublished manuscript of M.F.K. Fisher's was discovered neatly packed in the one of the literary agent's signa...

Two estranged sisters with a complicated past and an acrimonious present reunite in 1990s Cuba to confront the riddle of family amid the scars of p...

Two estranged sisters with a complicated past and an acrimonious present reunite in 1990s Cuba to confront the riddle of family amid the scars of p...

“For too long the struggle for the rights of women and girls was seen as women’s business. Of course, it’s equally men’s business and stops being s...

"Kadare is inevitably linked to Orwell and Kundera, but he is a far deeper ironist than the first, and a better storyteller than the second. He is ...

A timely, vital account of California’s unique relationship with China, told through the exploits of the entrepreneurs, activists, and politician...

"Poems, where I come from," writes Robert Bringhurst, "are spoken to be written and written to be spoken. The Tree of Meaning is a book of critical...

From the shadows of the correspondences and the contradictions of biography, the elusive Salomé emerges in this boldly revealing fiction to tell he...

Anyone who cares to understand the cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must know of the writings and lives of those scruffy ...

Only someone who values land enough to farm a hillside for more than thirty years could write about a wild place so lovingly. Wendell Berry just as...

Few places in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia, yet no other area has been so markedly mischaracterized by the ma...

Populated by strangers, ghosts, and other shadowy figures, the thirteen stories in The Unsettling attend to those startling moments when what we ha...

A landmark work of environmental writing that powerfully argues that our estrangement from the land through industrial farming is a cultural and sp...

A landmark work of environmental writing that powerfully argues that our estrangement from the land through industrial farming is a cultural and sp...

"Rarely has a marriage so come alive in a work of fiction. . . So intense, beautifully written, shining with 'felt life,' it is truly gripping—rive...

In 1958, Doris Muscatine's husband, a medieval scholar, got a Fulbright for a year of research in Italy. They lived in Rome and almost immediately ...

Pushed to his breaking point and accused of murder, retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney must face his greatest adversary yet to solve a mystery that...

Pushed to his breaking point and accused of murder, retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney must face his greatest adversary yet to solve a mystery that...

From celebrated Irish writer Maeve Brennan, The New Yorker’s “Long-Winded Lady,” comes The Visitor—the earliest of all of her known writings—that t...

A soulful, searching collection of essays that tackle the complexities of contemporary America from “the prophet of rural America” (New York Times)...