A collection of the New Yorker critic's finest essays, which examine the books that reveal and record our world.
Joan Acocella was "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), and she had the ra…
"A riveting indictment of the child welfare system . . . [A] bracing gut punch of a book." -Robert Kolker, The Washington Post
"[A] moving and superbly reported book." -Jessica Winter, The New Yorker
"A…
A Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick
A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, Time, Elle, Esquire, Goodreads, and WBEZ Chicago
A Must-Read: Nylon, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chro…
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Today, Electric Literature, Alta, the Chicago Review of Books, and The Millions. One of NPR's Books We Love.
"Told by m…
"An enthralling and haunting ode to youth, life on the margins, poetry and poets, and Mexico City." -Francisco Goldman
Auxilio Lacouture is the mother of Mexican poetry. Uruguayan by birth, Mexican by de…
"Full of moral and political urgency . . . Excellent." -Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian
In 1938 Paris, Pierre Pain, a lonely bachelor and a beleaguered mesmerist, receives a telegram from his friend Mada…
"Excellent . . . 'The Insufferable Gaucho' is one of Bolaño's most powerful fictions." -The New York Times Book Review
An aging Buenos Aires judge retires to the family ranch in the Pampas to battle fera…
"An essential account of America's greatest sculptor . . . [A] magnum opus." -Marjorie Perloff, The Times Literary Supplement
The landmark biography of the inscrutable and brilliant David Smith, the grea…
A Must-Read at The New York Times, NPR, Los Angeles Times, Vulture, The Boston Globe, Shondaland, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Review of Books, Essence, Literary Hub, The Millions, The Root
"Exhilara…
National Bestseller. Named a Best Book of 2024 (so far) by NPR, Harper's Bazaar, W, and Esquire, and a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, EL…
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A Must-Read: The New York Times Book Review, Nylon, Star Tribune, Ms., Kirkus Reviews, The Bay Area Reporter, Town & Country, InsideHook
"[A] monumental biogra…
Washington Territory, 1888. With contacts on the docks and in the railroad, and with a buyers' market funneling product their way, Alma Rosales and her opium-smuggling crew are making a fortune. They spen…
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Best Book of the Year (So Far) at The New Yorker, The BBC, Vulture, CrimeReads
A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick
"[A] savagely satirical thriller." -People
The Booker Prize-…
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
"Absorbing [and] astute . . . Cohen-Solal captures a facet of Picasso's character long overlooked." -Hamilton Cain, The Wall Street Journal
"A beguiling read…
One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: TIME, The Washington Post, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Publishers Weekly, Paste, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Lit Hub, Real Simple, Nylon, BookPage, The Story Excha…
Andrea Dworkin's 1981 critique of pornography is an important and urgent document about how the culture consumes and manipulates images of women. Essential and discomfiting reading in a social media era, …
Reissued with a bold, modern package, Andrea Dworkin's debut book Woman Hating argues that a deep-rooted hatred of women in history, art, politics, and beyond has reigned-and influenced and formed culture…
"May be the best book ever written about jazz."-David Thomson, Los Angeles Times
In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing …
A deeply personal meditation on remembrance, art, and World War I by the legendary Geoff Dyer, reissued with a new introduction by Drew Gilpin Faust
The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part medi…
A New York Times Bestseller
A leading public intellectual's timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other.
What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of world…
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