Aldo Busi What happened to Giorgina Washingon? And what drives the critical, multilingual intellectual Angelo Bazarovi to accompany a small, cynical, vulgar, and semi-literate, naughty industrialist like Celestino Lometto around...

Margaret Drabble This sequel to "The Radiant Way" describes life in 1980s Britain and is set in a Yorkshire city to which some of the characters have decamped from London....

Author: Joyce Carol Oates An epic novel of an American family in the 1950s proves the tender division between what is permissible and what is taboo, between ordinary life and...

Edited by James Cochrane This collection offers twenty-one stories from the literature of America, a nation which has always been particularly at home in this form, and which has produced...

Alice Munro Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living...

Margaret Atwood From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as:Why do...

Carlos Fuentes Mexico, 1991: Black acid rain falls on "Makesicko City," the most polluted, most populated city in the world. Amid this apocalyptic landscape a prize is being offered to...

Gore Vidal January 1, 1989 by ANDRE DEUTSCH LTD

Annie Ernaux Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a...

Michael Walzer A testament to what it means to be liberal by one of the most prominent political philosophers of our era “Walzer is perhaps our foremost pilot on these rocky...

Ali Smith O brave new world, that has such people in't.Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red...

Caryn Rose Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologetic...