Knopf, March 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Warner Lutz isn't sure how he got where he is, but he's not happy to be there. Midthirties, married, two kids, dead-end career in fund-raising, cramped apartment, old Honda, slightly frayed clothes. In boomtown Charlotte, North Carolina, everyone else seems to have more --... More about Six Figures
Gallery/Scout Press, January 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. "What's special about 'Cat Person, ' and the rest of the stories in You Know You Want This, is the author's expert control of language, character, story--her ability to write stories that feel told, and yet so unpretentious and accessible that we think... More about You Know You Want This
Random House, August 2019. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "From The New Yorker's beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television."--Esquire "A whip-smart, challenging book."--Zadie Smith - "Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time."--Vulture..... More about Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
NYRB Classics, September 2010. Trade Paperback. The Road brings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of Life and Fate, providing new insight into the life and work of this extraordinary writer. The stories range from Grossman's first success, "In the Town of Berdichev," a.... More about The Road: Stories, Journalism, and Essays (New York Review Books Classics
New York Review of Books, September 2008. Trade Paperback. The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one... More about The Liberal Imagination
NYRB Classics, April 2008. Trade Paperback. Wes Anderson on Stefan Zweig: "I had never heard of Zweig...when I just more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I loved this first book. I also read the The Post-Office Girl. The Grand Budapest Hotel has elements that... More about The Post-Office Girl (New York Review Books Classics
NYRB Classics, October 2008. Trade Paperback. Classic horror stories by one of masters of the form. Full of bone-chilling tales, this collection includes "The Birds," the basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same title, and other creepy classics. Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and... More about Don't Look Now: Selected Stories of Daphne Du Maurier (New York Review Books Classics
NYRB Classics, May 2014. Trade Paperback. An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation 1915: Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. The only thing he fears is missing the action. Soon, however, the vaunted "war to end all wars" seems like... More about Fear: A Novel of World War I (New York Review Books Classics
NYRB Classics, October 2007. Paper Back. While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. During World War II, he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete... More about A Time to Keep Silence (New York Review Books Classics
NYRB Classics, March 2005. Paper Back. War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death. Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force is... More about War and the Iliad
New York Review of Books, June 2006. Paper Back. Get lost in northern Greece with one of the greatest travel writers of the 20th century as he travels to monasteries, among shepherds, and throughout the hills, mountains, and rugged coastline of this enchanted land. Roumeli is not to be found... More about Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece
NYRB Classics, September 2015. Trade Paperback. Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California, is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and... More about Fat City
Vintage, December 1998. Paper Back. In this genre-bending novel--among the first to have launched sci-fi into the arena of literature--one of the great imaginers of the twentieth century tells a story as mind-blowing as any controlled substance and as affecting as a glimpse into a stranger's soul. There's Lone, the... More about More Than Human
Random House Trade Paperbacks, November 2011. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Spectacular . . . [Téa Obreht] spins a tale of such marvel and magic in a literary voice so enchanting that the mesmerized reader wants her never to stop."--Entertainment Weekly Look for... More about The Tiger's Wife: A Novel
Random House Trade Paperbacks, December 2009. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - Colum McCann's beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit's daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand... More about Let the Great World Spin: A Novel
Melville House, December 2014. Trade Paperback. Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin "I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only." When, in the fall of 1987, the... More about James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations
Melville House, June 2013. Trade Paperback. "Believe me: the benefits of blindness have been greatly exaggerated. If I could see, I would never leave the house, I'd stay indoors reading the many books that surround me." --Jorge Luis Borges Days before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his... More about Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview
Melville House, August 2018. Paper Back. An expanded edition featuring new interviews and an introduction by the editor, a New York Times journalist and friend of the author A unique selection of the best interviews given by David Foster Wallace, including the last he gave before his suicide in 2008... More about David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview Expanded with New Introduction: and Other Conversations...
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, March 2002. Trade Paperback. "To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project... More about The Arcades Project
St Martins Pr, August 2001. Trade Paperback. Includes the essay "Notes on Camp," the inspiration for the 2019 exhibition Notes on Fashion: Camp at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in... More about Against Interpretation : And Other Essays
St. Martins Press-3pl, June 2002. Trade Paperback. The Benefactor, Susan Sontag's first book and first novel, originally published in 1963, introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte, The Benefactor leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour... More about Benefactor
Back Bay Books, June 2019. Paper Back. A Washington Post Best Book of 2018A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2018An NPR Great Read of 2018 National Bestseller "The Winter Soldier brims with improbable narrative pleasures...These pages crackle with excitement... A spectacular success." --Anthony Marra, New York Times Book Review... More about The Winter Soldier
And Other Stories, April 2018. Paper Back. "She thought that it was precisely when things get uncomfortable or can't be shown that something interesting comes to light. That is the point of no return, the point that must be reached, the point you reach after crossing the border of what... More about Brother in Ice
The New Press, October 2019. Paper Back. The "heart-breaking" (New York Times Book Review), rollicking, award-winning novel that has been described as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles) "One of the most compelling books you'll read in any language this year." --Rolling Stone Winner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award... More about Black Moses: A Novel
The New Press, October 2019. Paper Back. As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and Chris Hayes, "incisive, witty, and provocative essays" (Publishers Weekly) by one of the "most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time" (Rebecca Traister)... More about Thick: And Other Essays
