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Mary and Mr. Eliot is a twin portrait of T. S. Eliot and its author, the formidable Mary Trevelyan.In 1938 T. S. Eliot, already "a Classic in his lifetime, " struck up a friendship with Mary Trevelyan. This passionately curious woman, an intrepid traveler who, like Eliot, was deeply involved in the affairs of the Church of England, served as the warden of the Student Movement House, mere yards from the poet and editor's office at Faber and Fab...

Kincaid's first book, which announced the arrival of a singular talent, "will burn on your shelf" (Derek Walcott).Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge gently into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partly remembered, partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean-family, manners, and...

[An] erudite, enlightening new biography . . . [Waldstreicher's] interpretations equal Wheatley's own intentional verse, making it a joy to follow along as he unpacks her words and their arrangement." -Tiya Miles, The Atlantic"Thoroughly researched, beautifully rendered and cogently argued . . . The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley is [. . .] historical biography at its best." -Kerri Greenidge, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)A para...

The essential, urgent coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, a reinventor of the form.Since her first, prizewinning collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid's work has been met with nothing short of amazement. The New York Times hailed her "prophetic power" and the Los Angeles Times Book Review said, "No one else seems to be writing quite this way."With Annie John, the story of a young girl coming of age in Antigua, ...

The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything.Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies-vibrant, imaginative experiments in self-governance and alternative social formations at the edges of the European empire.In graduate school, David...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Absorbing [and] astute . . . Cohen-Solal captures a facet of Picasso's character long overlooked." -Hamilton Cain, The Wall Street Journal"A beguiling read, as ingenious as it is ambitious . . . See Picasso and Paris shimmering with new light." -Mark Braude, author of Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s ParisBorn from her probing inquiry into Picasso's odyssey in France, which inspired a m...

A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself.Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. Her life is reduced to the sport, guided by its rhythms: the serve, the volley, the drive, th...

The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I-and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers.When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to "close ranks" and support the Allied cause in World War I, he made a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Seeking both intell...

The World and All That It Holds-in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory-showcases Aleksandar Hemon's celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents. It cements Hemon as one of the boldest voices in fiction.As Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pha...

A riveting indictment of the child welfare system . . . [A] bracing gut punch of a book." -Robert Kolker, The Washington Post"[A] moving and superbly reported book." -Jessica Winter, The New Yorker"A harrowing account . . . [and] a powerful critique of [the] foster care system . . . We Were Once a Family is a wrenching book." -Jennifer Szalai, The New York TimesA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceThe shocking, deeply reported story of ...

This book will be the talk of the genre. If you read one thriller this year, read this one." -Chelsea Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Heartsick Killing Eve meets Sharp Objects in this lush, savage Southern gothic thriller about twowomen: a fledgling murderer and the cophell-bent on catching her.Two hours before he vanished, Mark Dixon stole a glass of wine. That's what bartender Sophie Braam tells the cops when they question her abo...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER "Birnam Wood is terrific. As a multilayered, character-driven thriller, it's as good as it gets. Ruth Rendell would have loved it. A beautifully textured work-what a treat." -Stephen King ¿ "A generational cri de coeur . . . A sophisticated page-turner . . . Birnam Wood nearly made me laugh with pleasure. The whole thing crackles . . . Greta Gerwig could film this novel, but so could Quenti...

The intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable "call of the tribe." This book hopes to make a modest contribution to that indispensable project.In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way h...

From page one, A Country You Can Leave is a riveting, exasperating, and deeply heartbreaking tale of mother-daughter strife and resilience." -Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Olga Dies DreamingA stunning debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert.When sixteen-year-old Lara and her fiery mother, Yevgenia, find themselves homeless again, th...

The scintillating conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize-winning Sands of the Emperor trilogy."[Couto's] life has been woven into the history of the nation, and he has become the foremost chronicler of Mozambique's antiheroes: its women, its peasants, even its dead." -Jacob Judah, The New York TimesIn The Drinker of Horizons, the award-winning author Mia Couto brings the epic love story between a young ...

National Bestseller. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named a best book of March by Apple Books and Amazon, and a most anticipated book by The New York Times, Esquire, The Guardian, Time, BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, and Chicago Review of Books"A major novel, and a notably audacious one." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times "It feels fairly rare for a novel to be hugely intelligent and moving and fun in equal measur...

TITANIC THOMPSON is the rollicking true story of one of the most charismatic characters in twentieth-century America. Travelling only with his golf clubs, a.45 revolver, and a suitcase full of cash, this is the legendary tale of a man who was married five times to five different girls, murdered five men, and won and lost millions in a time when being a millionaire still really meant something.

A perfect storm of a wartime love story' The Times A FIGHT FOR SURVIVALApril 1943. In the bloody turmoil of war, John Easley, a journalist mourning his lost brother, is driven to expose a hidden and growing conflict: the Japanese invasion and occupation of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. But when his plane is shot down he is forced to either surrender, or struggle to survive in a harsh wilderness.A SEARCH FOR THE TRUTHThree thousand miles to the so...

A trove of iconic horror stories from the legendary Shirley Jackson, "the master of the haunted tale" (The New York Times Book Review).One of the darkest, most nightmarish stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" created a sensation when it was first published in 1948. Now celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary, this lucid tale of a sleepy town's annual lottery-and the monstrous desires it awakens-endures as an esse...

Long-listed for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Slate Top Ten Book of the YearA TIME Best Fiction Book of 2022Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Financial Times, San Francisco Chronicle, LitHub, Buzzfeed, and more.A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris,...