Daring and original stories set in New Testament times, from a rising young Norwegian authorLars Petter Sveen’s Children of God recounts the lives of people on the margins of the New Testament; thieve
A haunting, evocative tale about the power of storytellingA brutal civil war has ravaged the country, and contagious fevers have decimated the population. Abandoned farmhouses litter the isolated moun
A distinctive portrait of a 1960s marriage by debut novelist Robert HillEight years and four jobs and five pregnancies and meetings and train schedules and formula and diapers and deadlines and client
A bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in MineWhite Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of t
The exquisite new collection by the award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang, author of The Last Two Seconds and ElegyWe were ridiculous—me, with my high jinks and hat. Him, with his boredom and drink. I look
An award-winning and hard-hitting new voice in contemporary American poetryThe first time I ever came the light was weak and carnivorous.I covered my eyes and the night cleared its dumb throat.I heard
“Fred Marchant teaches and awakens the soul.” —Maxine Hong Kingstonsomeone in Benghazi with a hose in one handuses his free one to wipe down the corpsewater flows over the body and downa tilted steel
A page-turning new novel from the author of Livability, winner of the Oregon Book AwardThe Singers, an all-American family in the California style, are about to lose everything. Anne is a bureaucrat i
The remarkable discovery of Landis Everson, first winner of The Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award I stay upright.Nothing makes me go down dusty roads to change my style.I don’t beli
I often feel as though I've entereda standoff between whathappens around me & what'sgoing on inside--& this lifethat goes on & on inside my headgoes on & on & on it seemsalmost wit
Angela Palm grew up in a place not marked on the map, in a house set on the banks of a river that had been straightened to make way for farmland. Every year, the Kankakee River in rural Indiana floode
A spellbinding novel about transience and mortality, by one of the most original voices in American literatureThe Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somew
Back in print, Kathryn Davis’s riveting debut about the indelible pacts and hidden hatreds of sisterhoodLabrador is the story of two unforgettable sisters. Willie, the eldest, is willful, beautiful, a
A hilarious send-up of writing workshops, for-profit education, and the gulf between believers and nonbelieversMarianne is in a slump: barely able to support herself by teaching, not making progress o
A brilliant work of historical excavation with profound echoes in an age redolent with violence and xenophobiaEarly in the twentieth century, amid the myths of progress and modernity that underpinned
As 1944 comes to a close, nine-year-old Raj is unaware of the war devastating the rest of the world. He lives in Mauritius, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, where survival is a daily struggle for
New poetry by the acclaimed writer Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and The Ticking Is the Bombelectrocution, nothe boy stood in the hot-hot room stammering I did stamm
Ghosts lurk in the bamboo forest outside the tiny northern Japanese town where Satomi lives with her elusive mother, Atsuko. A preternaturally gifted pianist, Satomi wrestles with inner demons. Her f
His father never took Justin to Hawaii or Disneyland or Mount Rushmore Instead, he would load up the bed of his pickup with camping gear and they would drive to Christmas Valley or the Umpqua River o
The latest collection by Irish poet Eamon Grennan, winner of the 2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prizewe have to be at home here no matter what no matter what the shivering belly says or the dry-salted la
