Fiction/Literature

1914

A Novel

Jean Echenoz

Paperback Original: The Prix Goncourt winner turns his stylistic brilliance to the horrors of World War I in a novel published on the war’s one hundredth anniversary

The World Will Follow Joy

Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems)

Alice Walker

A dazzling collection of new poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner

The Shadow Girls

A Novel

Henning Mankell

From the internationally bestselling author—whose books have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide—a moving, unexpectedly funny new novel

Wide Awake

A Novel

Robert Bober

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A brilliant novel that invokes the parallel stories of the Paris of François Truffaut and the long shadow of the Holocaust, as one man attempts to unearth his family’s history

Lightning

A Novel

Jean Echenoz

The Prix Goncourt winner's magnificent portrait of Nikola Tesla, "the man who invented the twentieth century"

Daniel

A Novel

Henning Mankell

From the internationally bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries and The Man from Beijing, a deeply sympathetic, gripping tale of a young boy's harrowing odyssey from Africa to Sweden

Running

A Novel

Jean Echenoz

A beautifully crafted portrait of the legendary Czech runner Emil Zátopek, by “the master magician of the contemporary french novel” (The Washington Post )

The One That Got Away

Short Stories

Zoë Wicomb

A beautifully wrought set of interconnected short stories that J.M. Coetzee says “combine the coolly interrogative gaze of the outsider with an insider’s intimate warmth”

Italian Shoes

A Novel

Henning Mankell

From the bestselling creator of Kurt Wallander, the intimate, involving story of an aging man’s unexpected redemption after years of isolation

Beyond Suspicion

A Novel

Tanguy Viel

“A book you read in a single sitting” (Le Magazine Littéraire), here is a “story worthy of Hitchcock” (Paris Vogue), from one of the most promising French novelists to emerge since Michel Houellebecq

P.S.

Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening

Studs Terkel

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL — The Pulitzer prize-winning oral historian and nonagenarian makes a selection of his favorite unpublished writings, broadcasts, and interviews

Coming of Age in the 21st Century

Growing Up in America Today

Edited by Mary Frosch

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A follow-up to the critically acclaimed and bestselling multicultural collection of stories about growing up in America—with new selections for a new century

The Pyramid

And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries

Henning Mankell

The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Wallander’s beginnings, told in five gripping short mysteries

Minding the Store

Great Writing About Business, from Tolstoy to Now

Edited by Robert Coles and Albert LaFarge

Entertaining and illuminating literary selections that explore the ethical quandaries of the workplace, collected by the Pulitzer prize-winning author of the Moral Lives of Children

Possessing the Secret of Joy

A Novel

Alice Walker

PAPERBACK The stunning New York Times bestseller, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, reissued in a handsome new edition with a brand-new preface

The Eye of the Leopard

A Novel

Henning Mankell

A haunting novel juxtaposing a man’s coming of age in Sweden with his life in Zambia, from the internationally bestselling author

Wartime Writings

1943–1949

Marguerite Duras

NOW IN PAPERBACK From one of France’s most celebrated literary figures, the captivating World War II notebooks with the remarkable stories behind her international bestsellers

Law Lit

From Atticus Finch to The Practice

Edited by Thane Rosenbaum

NOW IN PAPERBACK — The collection of fiction and poetry that Christopher Buckley called "a brilliant compendium of writing about the law, by one of the coolest, hippest, and smartest legal brains in the business"

Literature from the “Axis of Evil”

Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations

Edited by Words Without Borders

NOW IN PAPERBACK “The book every American should read this year.” —The Bloomsbury Review

Coming of Age Around the World

A Multicultural Anthology

Edited by Faith Adiele and Mary Frosch

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Twenty-four stories by renowned international authors chronicle the modern struggle for identity among young people around the globe

Ravel

A Novel

Jean Echenoz

Now in paperback: The international bestseller by “the master magician of the contemporary French novel” (The Washington Post), published to coincide with the hardcover release of his new novel, Lightning

Coming of Age

Growing Up in the Twentieth Century

Studs Terkel

Inspired . . . the language spoken here is pure Terkel. —THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Shakespeare's Kitchen

Stories

Lore Segal

The much anticipated new book from the acclaimed author of Other People’s Houses and Her First American—Lore Segal’s first major work of fiction in twenty years

Depths

A Novel

Henning Mankell

A gripping, masterful novel from the world famous Henning Mankell, set off the coast of Sweden during World War I.

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

Alice Walker

NOW IN PAPERBACK The New York Times bestselling book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author

The Man Who Smiled

A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Henning Mankell

At last the long–awaited fourth mystery in the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander series

Playing in the Light

A Novel

Zoë Wicomb

NOW IN PAPERBACK Praised in the pages of the New Yorker and Oprah’s O Magazine, a wonderfully nuanced exploration of life in post-apartheid South Africa

Chronicler of the Winds

A Novel

Henning Mankell

An award-winning new novel by the internationally acclaimed mystery writer

The Last Friend

A Novel

Tahar Ben Jelloun

From the winner of the 2004 Impac Prize, a classic story of friendship and betrayal

Brecht's Mistress

A Novel

Jacques-Pierre Amette

Winner  of the 2003 Prix Goncourt, a novel hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as "a delicate, elegiac tale of political failure and defeated love"

Annapolis Autumn

Life, Death, and Literature at the U.S. Naval Academy

Bruce Fleming

In the tradition of Dead Poets Society, an English professor recounts the unique challenges of teaching liberal arts at one of America's premier military schools

Crossing into America

The New Literature of Immigration

Edited by Louis G. Mendoza and S. Shankar

A literary portrait of immigrant America including contributions from celebrated authors, young writers, and undocumented workers

Before the Frost

A Linda Wallander Mystery

Henning Mankell

The internationally acclaimed crime writer introduces a young, new heroine with a familiar father

Hatchet Jobs

Writings on Contemporary Fiction

Dale Peck

NOW IN PAPERBACK The cover may have softened, but the polemic remains durable

Piano

A Novel

Jean Echenoz

The Prix Goncourt winner brings Dante to today’s Paris

The Return of the Dancing Master

Henning Mankell

The latest novel from Henning Mankell features a young policeman with cancer investigating the brutal murder of his first partner. 

Making Love

A Novel

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

A stark, ultramodern novel of an affair's disintegration.

The Trolley

Claude Simon

30 Satires

Lewis Lapham

A leading political satirist skewers the pretensions and vanities of America’s equestrian classes

The Dogs of Riga

A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Henning Mankell

Bringing the acclaimed series to a close, The Dogs of Riga takes Detective Kurt Wallander across the Baltic to a disintegrating Soviet Union

The Absolute Perfection of Crime

A Novel

Tanguy Viel

An explosive crime novel with all the tough grittiness of film noir

Firewall

A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Henning Mankell

Mystery in the “exquisite” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander series

A Life in Medicine

A Literary Anthology

Edited by Robert Coles and Randy Testa

Growing Up Poor

A Literary Anthology

Edited by Robert Coles and Randy Testa

A searingly candid look at growing up "without", edited by the Pulitzer Prize--winning author of the Children of Crisis series.

This Blinding Absence of Light

A Novel

Tahar Ben Jelloun

A shocking story set in Morocco's desert concentration camps, from the Prix Goncourt–winning novelist

I’m Gone

A Novel

Jean Echenoz

Lonesome Rangers

Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Cultures

John Leonard

An exciting and far reaching new book on writers and exile by the leading literary critic John Leonard.

One Step Behind

A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Henning Mankell

The latest in the prizewinning Kurt Wallander mystery series from the writer Booklist calls “a major voice in international crime fiction.”

Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

The Mystery Behind the Agatha Christie Mystery

Pierre Bayard

NOW IN PAPERBACK A “charming piece of literary detective work” (Booklist) that reexamines Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit

The Fifth Act

Ingmar Bergman

The remarkable, final filmscripts of acclaimed director Ingmar Bergman, available in English for the first time

Undercurrents

Marie Darrieussecq

A mesmerizing new tour de force from the internationally acclaimed author of Pig Tales—the writer the New Yorker hailed as France's "best young novelist."

The Fifth Woman

A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Henning Mankell

A chilling Kurt Wallander mystery from a "major voice in international crime fiction" (Booklist).

Sidetracked

A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Henning Mankell

Gripping suspense combines with probing social commentary in this Kurt Wallander mystery.

Faceless Killers

A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Henning Mankell

First in the Kurt Wallander series, "a brilliant U.S. debut"(library jounal) from the successor to mystery writers Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo.

Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee

Meera Syal

The hilarious and moving novel from the prizewinning author of Anita and Me.

Letters of Transit

Reflections of Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss

Edited by André Aciman

Haunting reflections on exile and memory from five award-winning authors.

Essence of Camphor

Naiyer Masud

Hauntingly beautiful short stories with strong affinities to Kafka and Borges, by one of the most original voices to emerge from India.

Pig Tails ’n Breadfruit

A Culinary Memoir

Austin Clarke

A tantalizing Caribbean memoir--part cookbook, part family history--by "one of the most talented novelists at work in the English Language today" (Norman Mailer).

A Transatlantic Love Affair

Letters to Nelson Algren

Simone de Beauvoir

The "amazing" (Los Angeles Times) and "engrossing" (Publishers Weekly) love letters of Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algren.

When the Kissing Had To Stop

Cult Studs, Khmer Newts, Langley Spooks, Techno-Geeks, Video Drones, Author Gods, Serial Killers, Vampire Media, Alien Sperm Suckers, Satanic Therapists, and Those of Us Who Hold a Left-Wing Grudge in the Post-Toasties New World Hip-Hop

John Leonard

Anita and Me

Meera Syal

The prize-winning coming-of-age novel about a young Indian girl in northern England. 

My Phantom Husband

Marie Darrieussecq

An astonishing work of fiction from France's "best young novelist" (The New Yorker), the internationally acclaimed author of Pig Tales.

The Monkey Suit

And Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice

David Dante Troutt

Now in paperback, "rich and engaging" (Emerge) short stories on African Americans and the law in the tradition of Derrick Bell and Richard Wright.

The Sandglass

Romesh Gunesekera

"A layered narrative tour de force" (Publishing News) from the author of the Booker Prize finalist Reef.

Wonderful Women by the Sea

Monika Fagerholm

An award-winning evocation of the 1960s as seen through the eyes of two Swedish women caught between Tupperwar parties and the women's movement.

The Studs Terkel Reader

My American Century

Studs Terkel

A new addition to the collection of elegant reissues of the Studs Terkel Oeuvre

The White Lioness

A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Henning Mankell

The second novel from the award-winning Kurt Wallander Series, focusing on an international plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela.

The Crisis of Criticism

Edited by Maurice Berger

This "collection offers the undeniable pleasure of reading intellectually stimulating arguments" (Kirkus Reviews) on the controversial nature of artistic criticism

Pig Tales

A Novel of Lust & Transformation

Marie Darrieussecq

Big Blondes

Jean Echenoz

Shadows of a Childhood

A Novel

Elisabeth Gille

PAPERBACK For everyone who read Suite Française and wants to know more, a beautiful reissue of Irène Némirovsky’s daughter’s searing story of her parents’ disappearance

The New Press Guide to Multicultural Resources for Young Readers

Edited by Daphne Muse

A comprehensive guide to multicultural children's literature, featuring more than 1,000 critical book reviews, and essays.

Creole Folktales

Patrick Chamoiseau

In this unusual collection of stories and fables, Goncourt prize-winner Patrick Chamoiseau re-creates in truly magical language the stories he heard as a child in Martinique.

Lines of Fate

A Novel

Mark Kharitonov

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, hailed in Europe and the United States as a new classic of modern Russian fiction in the grand tradition of Nabokov and Gogol.

The Last Innocent White Man in America

And Other Writings

John Leonard

"Essays with everything that counts: wisdom, passion, and most of all, the generosity of great criticism" (San Francisvo Chronicle), on everything from Nixon's secret love affair with Elvis to the Reagan gerontocracy's "theology of greed" to assessments of writers as diverse as Toni Morrison and Gunter Grass.

Corruption

Tahar Ben Jelloun

"An engrossing depiction of a moral dilemma "(Booklist) from the north African winner of the prix Goncourt.

The Missing

Andrew O'Hagan

A Times Literary Supplement International Book of the Year, a fascinating meditation on missing persons.

Should We Burn Babar?

Essays on Children’s Literature and the Power of Stories

Herbert Kohl

PAPERBACK A new edition of the prizewinning educator's thoughts on the politics of children's literature, including a new essay written for this volume

“What Happened to You?”

Writing by Disabled Women

Edited by Lois Keith

Hard-hitting and deeply moving stories, poems, and essays by more than thirty disabled women, winner of the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year Award.

My Father's War

A Novel

Adriaan van Dis

The stunning bestselling Dutch novel, called "a beautiful realized novel" by the New York Times Book Review.

What the Night Tells the Day

A Novel

Hector Bianciotti

A "lyrical and unforgettable" (Washington Post Book World) memoir of growing up gay in Perón's Argentina.

If I Could Write This in Fire

An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean

Edited by Pamela Maria Smorkaloff

Dear Bruno

Alice Trillin

Naming the Jungle

A Novel

Antoine Volodine

A novel of political and psychological intrigue from one of France's most innovative and visionary authors.

Ellis Island

Georges Perec

An exploration of Ellis Island from acclaimed French novelist Georges Perec and filmmaker Robert Bober.

Black Fire

The Making of an American Revolutionary

Nelson Peery

Words of Fire

An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought

Edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall

The Thought Gang

Tibor Fischer

"A cult novel for the 1990s" (The Times, London) from the Booker Prize finalist.

Under the Frog

A Black Comedy

Tibor Fischer

Coming of Age in America

A Multicultural Anthology

Edited by Mary Frosch

PAPERBACK The acne and ecstasy of adolescence, a multicultural collection of short stories and fiction excerpts that Library Journal calls “wonderfully diverse from the standard fare,” in a beautiful new edition

Paradise

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Professor Martens’ Departure

Jaan Kross

A "witty and poignant" novel (The Guardian, London) by Estonia's leading novelist.

Coming to Terms

A Literary Response to Abortion

Edited by Lucinda Ebersole and Richard Peabody

The first literary anthology on America's most debated issue.

Reef

Romesh Gunesekera

From the Booker Prize finalist, "a sensuous feast of delight, incessantly pleasurable to read...A book to be slowly savoured, page by page" (The Times, London) 

Witness Against the Beast

William Blake and the Moral Law

E.P. Thompson

A brilliant interdisciplinary re-examination of Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background by the renowned historian and critic.

The Traveler’s Tree

Bruno Bontempelli

A harrowingly realistic tale of eighteenth-century life at sea.

The War

A Memoir

Marguerite Duras

An elegant new paperback edition of one of Marguerite Duras’s most important books

Her First American

A Novel

Lore Segal

A classic novel of the immigrant experience

Other People’s Houses

A Novel

Lore Segal

An immensely impressive, unclassifiable book.  —New Republic

Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian

A Literary Anthology

Edited by Bennett L. Singer

An award-winning collection of over fifty gay and lesbian coming-of-age stories. 

The North China Lover

A Novel

Marguerite Duras

An elegant new paperback edition of one of Marguerite Duras’s most important books

Monkfish Moon

Short Stories

Romesh Gunesekera

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, stunning short stories from a young Sri Lankan writer.
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