Bellevue Literary Press

"Topical, astonishing and provocative . . . a masterful collection." --Shelf Awareness for Readers (starred review) "[Lock's stories] are gems, rich in imagination and language . . . For all their...

The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon continues as he searches for clues about his identity across Central America and Europe, New York and JerusalemIn Monastery, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous wanderer...

"America's most interesting and important essayist." --Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize-winning author of The Age of Insight"[Gerald Weissmann] bridges the space between science and the humanities, and...

MossAuthor: Klaus ModickPublisher: Bellevue Literary PressPublication Date: August 25, 2020Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942658729ISBN-13: 9781942658726

"Barash . . . brilliantly integrat[es] science, literature, and pop culture into elegant and insightful commentaries on the most interesting and important questions of our time. A delightful read...

The long-awaited return of a quintessentially American storyteller"You're as likely to be hit twice by lightning on a Monday as see a wood chipper pull a man into its maw."So begins North of...

Pain StudiesAuthor: Lisa OlsteinPublisher: Bellevue Literary PressPublication Date: March 04, 2020Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942658680ISBN-13: 9781942658689

Who would have thought that something so commonplace as iron deficiency would lead to prehistoric ochre, Egyptian amulets, Renaissance alchemy, Victorian projections of maidenhood, and the...

"A writer at the height of her powers." ―Oprah.comIs not empathy that consciousness leading us, unwitting, into the realm of spirits, avatars, even demons? Are not the dead still trying to...

A master storyteller's novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early 20th-century Manhattan Ravage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan's Lower East Side--the cradle of Jewish...

Sergeant SalingerAuthor: Jerome CharynPublisher: Bellevue Literary PressPublication Date: January 05, 2021Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942658745ISBN-13:...

Mind-bending tales of passion, obsession, and brutality from an award-winning master of short fictionAuthor: Peter LaSallePublisher: Bellevue Literary PressPublication Date: Jan 10, 2017Number of...

Swimming To The Top Of The Tide: Finding Life Where Land And Water MeetAuthor: Patricia HanlonPublisher: Bellevue Literary PressPublication Date: June 08, 2021Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage:...

The lives of sixteen people who once gathered in a City of Destiny bar in 1968 unfold over sixty years.Author: Richard WileyPublisher: Bellevue Literary PressPublication Date: Feb 12, 2019Number of...

"Superb." --Steven Pinker"An explanation, a defense, and, most heartening, a celebration. . . . McWhorter demonstrates the 'legitimacy' of Black English by uncovering its complexity and...

From an assassination attempt by early anarchists to Occupy Wall Street, a novel of radical lives and lovesAuthor: Magdaléna Platzová, Alex ZuckerPublisher: Bellevue Literary PressPublication Date:...

A collection of stories by artist and author Frederic Tuten--Author: Frederic TutenPublisher: Bellevue Literary PressPublication Date: May 10, 2022Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The BearAuthor: Andrew KrivakPublisher: Bellevue Literary PressPublication Date: February 11, 2020Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942658702ISBN-13: 9781942658702

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and Scientific American Book Club selection"Moreno pulls apart the debates on eugenics, abortion, end-of-life decisions, embryonic stem-cell research,...

Huck Finn's mythic adventures--and childhood--abruptly end when he steps off his raft into Hurricane KatrinaHuck Finn and Jim float on their raft across a continuum of shifting seasons, feasting on a...

"Riveting . . . vibrant and unsparing." --Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review) "Superb. . . . Startlingly original." --Library Journal (starred review) "Once I started reading these stories,...

"Intense and bravely uncompromising. An adult study of pain, thwarted affection, and guarded privacies in a world at the edge of violent public breakdown. An impressive achievement." --DAVID MALOUF,...

A novel of a life built on the ashes of childhoodIn the 1950s Tropical Republic, a boy lives amid opulence and privilege, spending days at the beach or in the cool hills above the sweltering capital,...

An essential collection from the writer and physician Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel calls "America's most interesting and important essayist"Author: Gerald WeissmannPublisher: Bellevue Literary...

"One of the most provocative new books of the year, and, for me, mindblowing." --Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind"Kripal makes many sympathetic points...

Retired from public life, Ralph Waldo Emerson takes up arms to save a fugitive black soldier from unjust arrest in the tenth of Lock's American Novels--Author: Norman LockPublisher: Bellevue Literary...

Two novellas translated from the Portuguese--Author: Edgard Telles RibeiroPublisher: Bellevue Literary PressPublication Date: Jun 13, 2023Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature"A remarkable work . . . [that] documents a triumph of the human spirit over tremendous adversity."--Harper's"This elegantly-written tribute makes as beautiful a...

"The Leper Compound will . . . remain with the reader long after the book has been closed."--Stuart Dybek, author of I Sailed with MagellanFor Colleen, motherless at seven, isolated from her...

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital AtticAuthor: Darby PenneyPublisher: Bellevue Literary PressPublication Date: January 01, 2009Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage:...