Fiction/Literature

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PAPERBACK ORIGINAL — The Pulitzer prize-winning oral historian and nonagenarian makes a selection of his favorite unpublished writings, broadcasts, and interviews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

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

The last years of the great French composer’s life as envisioned by “the master magician of the contemporary French novel” (The Washington Post )

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

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

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

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

Making Love

A Novel

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

The Trolley

Claude Simon

30 Satires

Lewis Lapham

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

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

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

This Blinding Absence of Light

A Novel

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

By the Sea

Abdulrazak Gurnah

From the East African author of Paradise, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize, a spellbinding novel of seduction and betrayal

Undercurrents

Marie Darrieussecq

The Fifth Woman

A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Henning Mankell

Sidetracked

A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Henning Mankell

Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee

Meera Syal

Letters of Transit

Reflections of Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss

André Aciman

Essence of Camphor

Naiyer Masud

Pig Tails ’n Breadfruit

A Culinary Memoir

Austin Clarke

A Transatlantic Love Affair

Letters to Nelson Algren

Simone de Beauvoir

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

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

My Phantom Husband

Marie Darrieussecq

The Monkey Suit

And Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice

David Dante Troutt

The Sandglass

Romesh Gunesekera

Wonderful Women by the Sea

Monika Fagerholm

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 Crisis of Criticism

Edited by Maurice Berger

Pig Tales

A Novel of Lust & Transformation

Marie Darrieussecq

Big Blondes

Jean Echenoz

The New Press Guide to Multicultural Resources for Young Readers

Edited by Daphne Muse

Creole Folktales

Patrick Chamoiseau

Lines of Fate

A Novel

Mark Kharitonov

Faceless Killers

A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Henning Mankell

The Last Innocent White Man in America

And Other Writings

John Leonard

Corruption

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Admiring Silence

Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Missing

Andrew O'Hagan

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

My Father's War

A Novel

Adriaan van Dis

What the Night Tells the Day

A Novel

Hector Bianciotti

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

Ellis Island

Georges Perec

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

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

Coming to Terms

A Literary Response to Abortion

Edited by Lucinda Ebersole and Richard Peabody

Reef

Romesh Gunesekera

Witness Against the Beast

William Blake and the Moral Law

E.P. Thompson

The Traveler’s Tree

Bruno Bontempelli

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

 

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

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

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