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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized …
Mr. Potter
The "revelatory" (The New York Review of Books) story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home. Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to …
David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor
"An essential account of America's greatest sculptor . . . A] magnum opus." --Marjorie Perloff, The Times Literary SupplementThe landmark biography of the inscrutable and …
Close to Home
"Michael Magee's dead-on debut novel is universal." --The New York Times Book Review While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he …
In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World
As she builds her own life anew, an Italian writer embarks on an all-consuming search for the true story of the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi. On a sweltering day …
The Isle of Youth: Stories
" Laura van den Berg is] a master of the short story form. Hers are deliciously unnerving, moving, and monstrous tales." --Karen Russell, author of Orange World and other stories …
Sing Her Down
"Urgent, haunting, and fearless." --Megan Abbott, author of Beware the Woman"Sing Her Down hits like a shotgun blast." --Dennis Lehane, author of Small MerciesCormac McCarthy meets …
Gone to the Wolves
"A hair-raising, head-banging, meet-the-Devil epic tale of love, youth, and rock 'n' roll." --Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less Is Lost Kip, Leslie, and Kira …
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
"Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and--for better or worse--necessary reading." --Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment ProblemAn entertaining account …
Talk Stories
Jamaica Kincaid's collected writings for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" record her first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York.Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica …