"In this provocative 'cri de coeur,' the philosopher John Armstrong rescues the idea of civilization from irrelevance and connects it to our search for individual happiness. 'Civilization' once referr
Brief, jagged, haiku-like, Jim Moore's poems in Invisible Strings observe time moving past us moment by moment. In that accrual, line by line, is the anxiety and acceptance of aging, the mounting los
A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertilityWhen Belle Boggs's "The Art of Waiting" was published in Orion in 2012, it went viral, leadin
An astounding work of doubles by Albert Goldbarth, “a dazzling virtuoso who can break your heart” (Joyce Carol Oates)Albert Goldbarth’s first book of essays in a decade, The Adventures of Form and Con
Stephen is sometimes Stephanie and sometimes wonders how his past and her past are their own collective memoryAdvice from the Lights is a brilliant and candid exploration of gender and identity and a
A dark-hued, hybrid novel by a writer who “delivers our culture back to us, made entirely new” (A. M. Homes)In The Complete Ballet, John Haskell choreographs an intricate and irresistible pas de deux
An atmospheric and affecting novel set in rural Norway, by the award-winning author of Before I BurnIn the waning days of the German occupation of Norway, Karin and her husband move from Oslo to a ti
Encircling 2 continues Carl Frode Tiller’s “poised and effective Rashomon-style exploration of multiple psyches” (Kirkus Reviews)Book two of The Encircling Trilogy continues piecing together the frac
Essays on the urgency of our global refugee crisis and our capacity as artists and citizens to confront itTom Sleigh describes himself donning a flak jacket and helmet, working as a journalist inside
An entrancing new novel by the author of the prizewinning Grief Is the Thing with FeathersThere’s a village an hour from London. It’s no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick
Has the hoax now moved from the sideshow to take the center stage of American culture?Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, an
The brilliant new collection by Monica Youn following Ignatz, a finalist for the National Book Awardthe trees all planted in the same month after the same fireeach thick aroundas a man’s wristmeticulo
With its defiance for any one tradition or voice, Thomas Sayers Ellis’s debut becomes a powerful argument against monotony A dream. A democracy. A savage liberty. And yet another anthem
In this second collection, Nick Flynn invites us to consider the intricate geometry of the beehive. Our guide to this new world is Blind Huber, loosely based on the eponymous eighteenth-century beeke
Poet Katie Ford's debut collection confronts God in a language as shifting and ecstatic as divine encounter This comes out of folklore. Invented because tenderness at times must be written in. There
Paul Lisicky remembers being not much like other boys his age, but rather the awkward thirteen-year-old with "arms thick as drinking straws," who composes tunes in his head that he might later send t
After a brilliant youth, the painter Roderic Kennedy's life has been overtaken by a series of crises - alcoholism, the failure of his marriage to an Italian woman, and estrangement from his three dau
Cindy, a lean, lonely white girl, has come to Chicago to study art history - to be anywhere but where she came from - Thousand Oaks, California: tract housing, mock-stucco buildings, "incessant sun a
A career-spanning collection by one of greece’s most loved and lyrical contemporary poets, Katerina Anghelaki-RookeI wasn’t weaving, I wasn’t knitting I was writing something
A major anthology spanning the diversity of the latest poetry to come out of EuropeNew European Poets presents the works of poets from across Europe. In compiling this landmark anthology, Wayne
