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A daring new novel that "may be David Treuer's best book" (Charles Baxter)"He realizes he has discovered a document that could change his life forever."Dr Apelles, Native American translator of Native American texts, lives a diligent existence. He works at a library and, in his free time, works on his translations. Without his realizing it, his world has become small. One day he stumbles across an ancient manuscript only he can translate. What...

Finally available in the United States, a singular story collection that "Time Out" declared ?unsettlingly brilliant? Astudent's suicide note is not what it seems. A high school football rivalry turns absurd?and deadly. A much-loved cat seems to have been a different animal all along. A pair of identical twins aren?t identical at all?or even related. A man finds his own yellowed birth announcement inside a bureau bought at auction. Set in a sm...

Beautiful essays by Fanny Howe, a poet praised for her "private quest through the metaphysical universe . . . the results are startling and honest" (The New York Times Book Review)Fanny Howe's richly contemplative The Winter Sun is a collection of essays on childhood, language, and meaning by one of America's most original contemporary poets. Through a collage of reflections on people, places, and times that have been part of her life, Howe sh...

As David Imaz, on the threshold of adulthood, divides his time between his uncle Juan's ranch and his life in the village, he becomes increasingly aware of the long shadow cast by the Spanish Civil War. Letters found in a hotel attic lead David to unravel his family's role in the conflict.

In this contemporary novel about memory, guilt, power, and violence, a returning resident in a small upstate New York town sets out to explore a forbidding and almost impenetrable forest--lifeless, it seems, but for a bewitching white deer--that is the site of an 18th-century Indian massacre.

An arresting sequence of poems based on the life and paintings of Edward Hopper, in an award-winning translation from the Catalan

Fifty years ago, the terms mourning and melancholia were part of the psychological lexicon. Today, in a world of rapid diagnoses, quick cures, and big pharmaceutical dollars, the catch-all concept of depression has evolved to take their place. In "The New Black, " Darian Leader argues that this shift is more than semantic, rather, it speaks to our culture's complicated relationship with loss, suffering, and grief. Part memoir, part cultural a...

To my mind, what distinguishes Marchant's work is his willingness to take a hard look at human suffering while maintaining his unflinching, delicate tone." --"The Journal " "house that floats "on a muddy river in spring-time flood, "house like a human head on the surface, "house with a boy's face, turned up. " --from "House on Water, House in Air" In "The Looking House"--Fred Marchant's new collection of poems--the poet lays out a map of h...

Now in paperback, the career-spanning retrospective by Albert Goldbarth, the only poet to have won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry twice Now his, the onlyoverhead turned on. Now nothing else existed: only him, and the book, and the light thrown over his shouldersas luxuriously as a cashmere shawl.--from "Shawl" Albert Goldbarth has created an unmistakable signature style--learned, copious, hilarious, and heartbreaking. "The Ki...

Originally published: England: Allan Lane, 2009.

Ghosts lurk in the bamboo forest outside the tiny northern Japanese town where Satomi lives with her elusive mother, Atsuko. A preternaturally gifted pianist, Satomi wrestles with inner demons. Her fall from grace is echoed in the life of her daughter, Rumi, who unleashes a ghost she must chase from foggy San Francisco to a Buddhist temple atop Japan's icy Mount Doom. In sharp, lush prose, "Picking Bones from Ash "examines the power and limita...

What begins as a meditation on love and the body soon breaks down into a collage of voices culled from media reports, childhood memories, testimonies from Abu Ghraib detainees, passages from documentary films, overheard conversations, and scraps of poems and song, only to reassemble with a gathering sonic force. It's as if all the noise that fills our days were a storm, yet at the center is a quiet place, but to get there you must first pass t...

A sense of urgency pervades all of [Svoboda's] work, giving the words a pulse, making her language race with insistence." --"Poets & Writers

The world of Jeffery Renard Allen's stunning short-story collection is a place like no other. A recognizable city, certainly, but one in which a man might sprout wings or copper pennies might fall from the skies onto your head. Yet these are no fairy tales. The hostility, the hurt, is all too human. The protagonists circle each other with steely determination: a grandson taunts his grandmother, determined to expose her secret past, for years,...

As this novel turns from the hot, oppressive heat of Texas to the misty beauty of Scotland, a girl learns of her aunt's remarkable secret life and comes to fully understand the fragile business of living, and even of dying.

Gripping memoir in which Jack & Rochelle Sutin recount their struggle to survive the Holocaust as part of a band of partisans in the forests of Poland.

A hilarious and perceptive examination of the mysteries of childhood and the perils of parenthoodFrom August 1956 through April 1961 I controlled the traffic and streetlights in New York City and northern New Jersey. It was a daunting task for a five-year-old, but by the summer of '56 I realized I had a responsibility I could not ignore. My identity and my mission were top secret. With the exception of terse, encrypted communications to the Na...

The new collection by Mary Jo Bang, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and "one of the finest poets of her generation" (Marjorie Perloff) "I took. I borrowed. I turned.I knew. And from then onI was the anything that wanted done." --from "A Equals All of a Sudden" Following her acclaimed "Elegy, " Mary Jo Bang's sixth collection, "The Bride of E, " confronts what the first poem posits in its title: "Cosmic Aloneness Is the Bride o...

The second collection by the award-winning poet Joanna Rawson, whose "intense language recalls the hothouse prose of Cormac McCarthy" ("Kirkus Reviews") "The sky threatens to answer a prayer but then won't. It is not exactly our own minds we go out of." -from "The Insurgency" A man's sister sews him into a bus seat. Stowaway immigrants suffocate in a crowded boxcar. The first female suicide bomber passes through a checkpoint. Joanna Rawson's ...

With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in "The Art of Syntax." Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning. "This structure--this architecture--is the essential drama of the poem's composition, " she argues. "The Art of Syntax" is an indispensable book ...