Featured Books

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Funny Story
The Women
A Calamity of Souls
Apples Never Fall
Extinction
Toxic Prey
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Oryx and Crake
The Dreadful Duke
The Murder Inn
She Came Back
Cecil the Lion Had to Die

Cecil the Lion Had to Die

In Cecil the Lion Had to Die, Olena Stiazhkina follows four families through radical transformations when the Soviet Union implodes, independent Ukraine emerges, and Russia occupies Ukraine's Crimea and parts ...

Sovereign Fictions

Sovereign Fictions

"The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to be concerned with private lives and social relations. But Russian fiction, obsessively focused on scenarios of state power, was an exception to the ...

All Things Are Too Small

All Things Are Too Small

A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent. In ...

The Washington Book

The Washington Book

The Pulitzer Prize–winning opinion columnist at The New York Times explores how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings and, in so doing, illuminates the personal, ...

The Cooking of Books  A Literary Memoir

The Cooking of Books A Literary Memoir

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring....

Sacred Language  Vernacular Difference

Sacred Language Vernacular Difference

How Arabic influenced the evolution of vernacular literatures and anticolonial thought in Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference offers a new understanding of Arabic’s global position as ...