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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "[Calasso's] flow of associations leaves you feeling not out of your depth, but smarter and better read." --The New York Times Book Review The eighth part...

Named a Summer Read by Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Nylon, Bustle and Literary Hub One of Granta?s Best Young American novelists, Catherine Lacey, the Whiting Award-winning author of The Answers,...

Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller, Charming Billy is ?Alice McDermott?s masterpiece? (NPR). In a small bar somewhere in the Bronx, a funeral party has gathered to...

A New York Times Bestseller In latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it. The modern world has...

The beautiful child of older parents, raised on the eastern end of Long Island, Theresa is her town?s most sought-after babysitter?cheerful, poised, an effortless storyteller, a wonder with children...

Includes "After Yang," the basis for the acclaimed A24 film After Yang, starring Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Haley Lu Richardson, and directed by Kogonada. A New York Times Notable Book ôA...

The Dadaab refugee camp is many things: to the charity workers, it?s a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, a ?nursery for terrorists?; to the Western media, a dangerous no-go area. But to...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 Named one of the best books of 2020 by The New Yorker; BBC; NPR; Time ("100 Must-read Books"); Kirkus; and The Washington Post ("50 Notable Works of Fiction") In...

This 25th Anniversary Edition of Close to the Machine, featuring a new introduction by Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, resurfaces Ellen Ullman?s astonishing account of computing and the ways...

In her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center. This...

Expanding the world of his classic-in-the-making debut novel Early Work, Andrew Martin?s Cool for America is a hilarious collection of overlapping stories that explores the dark zone between artistic...

Author: Jonathan FranzenPublisher: Picador PaperPublication Date: Oct 12, 2021Number of Pages: 576 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1250824028ISBN-13: 9781250824028

NPR's Favorite Books of 2019 Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three ?literary masterpieces? (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with...

Most things we create will not matter. This book is about creating things that do, from a master innovator who brings science and art together in his cutting edge labs. Art and science are famous...

Jonathan Franzen?s gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads It?s December 23, 1971, and heavy weather...

Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy...

Novelist Colum McCann's Dancer is the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev as told through the cast of those who knew him. There is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's first ballet...

From the award-winning author Asali Solomon, The Days of Afrekete is a tender, surprising novel of two women at midlife who rediscover themselves?and perhaps each other?inspired by Mrs. Dalloway,...

?A great Faustian fable, and a literary endeavor of historical ingenuity that we now may start to characterize as Krachtian.? ?Karl Ove Knausgaard In Berlin, Germany, in the early 1930s, the...

A man mourning his alcoholic father faces a choice: whether to pay tribute, lay scorn upon him, or pour a drink. Weaving between preparations for his father?s funeral and memories of life on both...

From the New York Times bestselling author and Mountain Goats? singer/songwriter John Darnielle??a master at building suspense? (Los Angeles Times)?comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth,...

Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century...

A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"?the work that society considers essential but morally compromised Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented...

A New York Times Book Review Editors? Choice ?Wilkinson has accomplished something more moving and original, braiding his stumbling attempts to get better at math with his deepening awareness that...

Double Blind follows three close friends and their circle through a year of extraordinary transformation. Set in London, Cap d'Antibes, Big Sur, and a rewilded corner of Sussex, this thrilling,...

An advertising executive remembers his childhood with his eccentric foster family and his early adulthood experiences of trying to establish an independent life for himself. By the author of Running...

A New York Times Book Review Editors? Choice ?What Saladino finds in his adventures are people with soul-deep relationships to their food. This is not the decadence or the preciousness we might...

In Eden Mine, the award-winning author of Black River examines the aftershocks of an act of domestic terrorism rooted in a small Montana town on the brink of abandonment, as it tears apart a family,...

A New York Times Top Ten Thriller of 2020 "One of the most innovative mysteries in recent memory." - The Wall Street Journal "Dizzying, dazzling... When did you last read a genuinely original...

A sweeping work of historical fiction from the New York Times?bestselling author Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel is a spellbinding story of art and love. For more than thirty years, Claude Ballard...