Described by The Washington Post Book World as 'classic Latin American magical realism . . . [fro...

To the Land of Cattails

This powerful, gritty, and vivid novel is the unforgettable story of Carlito Brigante, a Harlem d...

These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last tumultuous eight months of his lif...

Orgasm is one of society’s most compelling, shaping forces -- and most of us probably think that ...

Banned upon its initial publication, the now-classic Candy is a romp of a story about the impossi...

Equal Affections tells the story of the funny, loving, and tragic Cooper family. Louise, the indo...

The recent success of Freedomland and Clockers has established Richard Price as one of America's ...

Widely celebrated upon its original publication in 1999, National Book Award–winning writer Bob S...

The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincid...

Yoram Kaniuk has been hailed as “one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western W...

In House Divided, fixer Joe DeMarco gets caught between two of the most powerful organizations in...

In a time when steak, vodka, and Benzedrine were the three main staples of a healthy diet, when h...

Written by a direct descendant of the union between Nell Gwyn and King Charles II, Nell Gwyn tell...

Pigeons have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and revered as symbols of peace. Domesticated...

A box of chocolates, a bunch of flowers — lovely, but gone in an instant. Here, in a book that ca...

Following the industrial revolution of the late eighteenth century, Christians in the West began ...

'Excellent . . . The action builds to a stunning final twist.' -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Lauded by Peter Marks of The New York Times as 'powerfully unsettling…an enormously moving play,'...

In Bodies and Souls, Rechy paints a portrait of modern Los Angeles, 'the most spiritual and physi...

Winner of the Laurence Olivier Best New Comedy award, in Tom Stoppard's hilarious and poignant tr...

“Meditative and unique, a lovely read for any spiritual person, Muslim or not.”—Publisher's Weekl...

Jerzy Kosinski's best-selling novel Pinball, which he wrote for George Harrison, is a rock 'n' ro...

Sumptuous birds of paradise, amazing soft shell turtles, frogs that look like tomatoes, and terri...

Chrissy, a bright and not-quite-innocent woman with visions of a career as a dancer, finds hersel...

Warren Leight burst onto Broadway with the Tony Award-winning play Side Man. Now Leight returns t...

Michael Tolkin has garnered acclaim for his classic dark comedies The Player and Among the Dead. ...

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) - a poet who lived most his life in Lisbon, Portugal, and who died in...

For Chris Ayres, the young British journalist whose first book, War Reporting for Cowards, was ce...

Last spring, after congress passed sweeping legislation to reform our nation’s health care system...

Moore's follow-up to her award-winning debut, 'Alligator,' is propelled by a local tragedy, in wh...

A sensational and accomplished novel that made its young author one of the most talked about in B...

In his first original screenplay since The Misfits (1961), Arthur Miller has spun a taut, sophist...

Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as 'a luscious Victorian thriller' that 'sends two chara...

One of the most original novels of Los Angeles in recent years, Stars Screaming takes us beyond t...

From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans bel...

S³awomir Mro¿ek has reigned as the pre-eminent playwright and satirist of Eastern Europe for the ...

Breaking onto the scene in 1982 with Diner, which was hailed by one critic as a masterpiece of ob...

Hailed by Science News as 'the new seminal text,' The Pyramids is the most up-to-date, comprehens...

It started fifty years ago with a couple of baseball games. Then came pro football, basketball, h...

In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embo...

The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincid...

Behind Closed Doors is a novel in two halves, one presenting the adventures and perspectives of a...

Lost Nation delves beneath the bright, promising veneer of early-nineteenth-century New England t...

From Papantla in Mexico-'the city that perfumed the world'-to the Indian Ocean islands, Vanilla t...

Set in New York, Three Days of Rain centers on a brother Walker, his sister Nan, and their childh...

Harold Pinter is one of our most profound poets and playwrights, with work ranging from his plays...

Terry Southern is an acclaimed satirist of American culture, the writer responsible for Candy and...