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From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt?and what it means for the future of the arts In October 2013, the...

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Latino-themed Fiction 2016, Longlisted for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Named a...

One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2020. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. "Finely wrought, a master class in the layering of time and contradiction that gives us a deeply...

The nine stories in Morgan Thomas's shimmering debut collection witness Southern queer and genderqueer determined to find themselves reflected in the annals of history, whatever the cost. AS Thomas's...

Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from the Nobel laureate Louise Glück. ?Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V.? So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise...

Alternating between the protagonist's present life and passages of a manuscript in translation, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea is a genre-bending exploration of memory, war, technology, friendship, love,...

An immersive examination of why the age of democratic revolutions was also a time of hero worship and strongmen In Men on Horseback, the Princeton University historian David A. Bell offers a dramatic...

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL The ?gripping... page-turner? (Time) hitting all the best of summer reading lists, Miracle Creek is perfect for book clubs and fans of Liane Moriarty...

No one knows more about everything?especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling?than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics...

Ms. Hempel ChroniclesAuthor: Sarah Shun-Lien BynumPublisher: Picador PaperPublication Date: Oct 27, 2020Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1250781345ISBN-13:...

Will Jawando?s My Seven Black Fathers tells a deeply affirmative story of hope and respect for men of color at a time when Black men are routinely stigmatized. ?Will Jawando's account of mentorship,...

From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic epic of art, politics, and hidden realities Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history...

In this now classic work, Barbara Ehrenreich, our sharpest and most original social critic, goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of...

An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough science Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes...

From the National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alice McDermott, The Ninth Hour is the critically acclaimed ?haunting and vivid portrait of an Irish Catholic clan in early twentieth...

Nobody Ever Asked Me About The Girls : Women, Music And FameAuthor: Lisa RobinsonPublisher: Picador PaperPublication Date: Nov 09, 2021Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

A short, powerful new novel by one of the greatest writers in the German language On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House is Peter Handke's evocative, moving, often fantastic, novel about one man's...

On Getting BetterAuthor: Adam PhillipsPublisher: Picador PaperPublication Date: Jan 04, 2022Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1250838878ISBN-13: 9781250838872

A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and...

On Wanting To ChangeAuthor: Adam PhillipsPublisher: Picador PaperPublication Date: Jan 04, 2022Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0374172048ISBN-13: 9780374172046

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag?s feminism, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was a genius, and ?an incomparable literary...

A charged, hypnotic debut novel about a boy?s life-changing summer in rural Pakistan: a story of fathers, sons, and the consequences of desire. At age sixteen, Fahad hopes to spend the summer with...

From New York Times bestselling author of Lead From The Outside and political leader Stacey Abrams, a blueprint to end voter suppression, empower our citizens, and take back our country. "With each...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 Longlisted for the National Book Award Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist: Minnesota Book Awards, Stanford Dolman Travel Book...

A Best Book of 2020 at Lit Hub, Electric Literature, and Refinery29 A Best Book of Summer at Vulture, Refinery29, Yahoo! Life, Alma, Subway Book Review, and Lit Hub A Best Book of the Month at...

In a strangely distorted Paris, a Japanese adoptee is haunted by the woman he once loved When Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room, she?s already dead, leaving a half-smoked...

Pee Wees : Confessions Of A Hockey ParentAuthor: Rich CohenPublisher: Picador PaperPublication Date: Jan 11, 2022Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government?s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he...

Philosopher of the Heart is the groundbreaking biography of renowned existentialist S?ren Kierkegaard?s life and creativity, and a searching exploration of how to be a human being in the world. S?ren...

Pickard County Atlas : A NovelAuthor: Chris Harding ThorntonPublisher: Picador PaperPublication Date: Jan 25, 2022Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...