Andrea Barrett
"Luminous....Each [story] is rich and independent and beautiful and should draw Barrett many new admirers."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewMore
Frederick Busch
"A multilayered love story that affirms Frederick Busch's reputation as a writer of "sublimely dark work of almost unbearable beauty" (Wall Street Journal).More
Michael B. Beckerman
A forceful reinterpretation of the composer's personality and work.More
A. R. Ammons
This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.More
A. R. Ammons
Winner of the National Book Award.More
Wislawa Szymborska, Joanna Trzeciak, Czeslaw Milosz
"Miracle Fair is Szymborska at her very best."—Harvard Book ReviewMore
Larry Gonick
An irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.More
Marisa Silver
A New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001, the critical success of Babe in Paradise heralds Marisa Silver as one of America's most talented young writers.More
William S. McFeely
"Combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages....Biography at its best."—Marcus Cunliffe, The New York Times Book Review; Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.More
Judy Rodgers, Gerald Asher
For twenty-four years, in an odd and intimate warren of rooms, San Franciscans of every variety have come to the Zuni Café with high expectations and have rarely left disappointed.More
Brad Watson
"His people and dogs—those wonderful dogs!—come alive with honest, thrumming energy." —The New York Times Book ReviewMore
Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann
"A recovered masterpiece....Remarkable as a sidelong, searing appraisal of the legacy of the Nazi years."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewMore
Kim Todd
A bewitching look at nonnative species in American ecosystems, by the heir apparent to McKibben and Quammen.More
Mark Costello
A scary, funny novel—a riff on recent history and the American obsession with assassination.More
Don Lee
"Elegant and engrossing...[an] unusually complete portrait of contemporary Asian America."—Los Angeles Times..."A gem....Lee has captured this truth beautifully, wisely, and with winning economy."—Cleveland Plain DealerMore