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Housewife Superstar!: Advice (and Much More) from a Nonagenarian Domestic Goddess

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

Dreaming by the Book

By Elaine Scarry

A pathbreaking work about the way literature teaches us to use our imagination....

Housewife Superstar!

By Danielle Wood

The life, advice, and many marriages of a ninety-something Tasmanian domestic...

The Unwinding

By George Packer

A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political...

By Giacomo Leopardi; Edited by Michael Caesar and Franco D'Intino; Translated from the Italian by Kathleen Baldwin, Richard Dixon, David Gibbons, Ann Goldstein, Gerard Slowey, Martin Thom, Pamela Williams

A groundbreaking translation of the epic work of one of the great minds of...

Fin & Lady

By Cathleen Schine

From the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport, a wise, clever story...

The Anatomy Lesson

By Philip Roth

The writer Nathan Zukerman comes down with a mysterious physical affliction--pure...

Awards

RSL Ondaatje Prize Winner

Scenes from Early Life

By Philip Hensher

From the Man Booker–short-listed author of The Northern Clemency, a family...

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

The Cubs and Other Stories

By Mario Vargas Llosa

The Cubs and Other Stories is Mario Vargas Llosa’s only volume of short fiction...

L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist

The Ground

By Rowan Ricardo Phillips

A masterful debut from a powerfully original poetic voice A poignant and...

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Featured Author

James Lasdun

James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in upstate New York. He has published two novels as well as several collections of short stories and poetry....

Philip Hensher

Philip Hensher is a columnist for The Independent, an arts critic for The Spectator, and one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists....

Yang Jisheng

Yang Jisheng was born in 1940, joined the Communist Party in 1964, and worked for the Xinhua News Agency from January 1968 until his retirement in 2001....