Kitty Mrosovsky

Foreword by Maggie Gee

“A writer of great intelligence and sensibility who never received the critical attention she deserved.” —Amanda Mitchison, The Independent

A lush, labyrinthine novel of one woman’s erotic odyssey, and the final testament by a neglected writer of extraordinary talent.

COMING JUN 30, 2026

Philip Hensher

New Preface by the Author

“[An] elegant novel of poisoned love and intimate violence . . . Sharp and funny . . . a beautifully polished performance.” —James Lakeman, The Times Literary Supplement

“Political intrigue, sexual chicanery, disappointment, betrayal” combine with “dazzling” effect (Jane Shilling, The Sunday Telegraph) in this scandalous novel that exposed the secrets of Margaret Thatcher’s government.

Philip Owens

Foreword by Allen Bratton

“Truly unlike any other book I have read. Shakespeare and AntiShakespeare, a time-slipping tragicomedy of errors, grim and gorgeous, sparkling and sliding with wit and melancholy . . . Picture of Nobody is a masterpiece, and a very strange one too.” —David Tibet, Current 93

Transposed into the early twentieth century, a nonentity named Shakespeare rails against poverty, mediocrity, and misunderstanding, in forgotten modernist Philip Owens’s brilliant, one-of-a-kind satire.

Beryl Bainbridge

Foreword by Yiyun Li

“Pinteresque menace and Sparkian malice . . . A former actress herself, Ms. Bainbridge chronicles the backstage antics of her fictional theater company with knowing aplomb.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review

A blackly comic story of the secrets, sex, and violence behind the curtain of a repertory theater’s postwar production of Peter Pan: its “close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction.” (The Times)

Felix Platter

Foreword by Stephen Greenblatt

Translated and introduced by Seán Jennett

“Like the diary of Samuel Pepys or the memoirs of François-René de Chateaubriand, Beloved Son Felix [is] an invaluable and entertaining firsthand exploration of a bygone era . . . We are allowed a rare glimpse into the street-level experiences of a common Renaissance man.” —Michael Patrick Brady, The Wall Street Journal

The wildly vivid, rare, and revealing journals of a sixteenth-century medical student.

Diane Ackerman

Foreword by Maria Popova

“Stunning . . . it is spectacularly good poetry, clear, lyrical and soaring . . . One of the triumphs of Ackerman’s pastoral is the demonstration of how closely compatible planetary exploration and poetry, science and art really are.” —Carl Sagan, The New Republic

From Marginalian Editions comes a gorgeous reissue of celebrated poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman’s debut: a soaring ode to our solar system, planet to planet, blending science and imagination, astronomy and cosmology, as well as fantasy, satire, myth, and reflection.

Francis King

Foreword by Rumaan Alam

“A compact, intricately patterned story of unrequited erotic obsession, focused on the relationship between a closeted English novelist and a beautiful Italian philosopher  . . . Among the novel’s daring ideas is its suggestion that closetedness and English taciturnity are part of a common condition, each an art of concealment.” —Charlie Tyson, Harper’s Magazine

A witty, heartbreaking tale of unrequited love by “one of the finest and most remarkable of English novelists of our time.” (The Scotsman)

Kay Cicellis

Foreword by Rachel Cusk

A fiery modern retelling of three Greek tragedies, “written in an ageless prose that instantly strikes the reader as the work of a master.” (Rachel Cusk, from the foreword)

Dinah Brooke

Foreword by Emma Cline

“A devastating account of the sexual awakening of an English lady . . . An intense, fastidiously crafted and disturbing novel.” —Publishers Weekly

From the “brilliant forgotten novelist” behind the “ferocious” Lord Jim at Home (The Telegraph) comes a searing tale of a young woman’s unravelling beneath the unforgiving Tuscan sun.

Isobel Lola Brown

Photography by Melanie Dunea

Gorgeously produced and full of fascinating interviews, profiles, and recipes, Cafe Gitane: 30 Years tells the story of the vibrant downtown New York culture that thrived in the ’90s and 2000s through the lens of an iconic institution nestled at its heart.

ALSO AVAILABLE IN A LIMITED SLIPCASE EDITION

Todd Grimson

“If Raymond Chandler or Flannery O’Connor had written a vampire novel, it might read with the brutal and passionate clarity of Stainless . . . The ultimate late night in L.A.” —Katherine Dunn

A bloody, erotic love story from “the greatest horror writer you’ve never read . . . In Stainless, Todd Grimson set out to write ‘the Ultimate, Final Vampire Novel’—and succeeded.” (The Guardian)

Carolivia Herron

New afterword by the author

“An unblinking, poetic journey into America’s true heart of darkness.” —Marlon James

Family trauma, race, and the destiny of a nation corrupted by slavery, cast in the light of epic myth: “More than a saga of Black revitalization . . . Part vision, part parable, it is a story for all America.” (The New York Times Book Review)

Pamela Hansford Johnson

Foreword by Michael Dirda

“Witty, satirical and deftly malicious.” —Anthony Burgess

From the prolifically gifted Pamela Hansford Johnson, neglected peer of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, comes “a maliciously witty account of literary skulduggery and lofty pretensions, set in Johnson’s beloved Bruges.” (The Telegraph)

Jane Ellen Harrison

Foreword by Maria Popova

“Jane Ellen Harrison, the maverick Cambridge classicist and celebrity public intellectual . . . cultivated a distinctive brand of quirky and memorable outspokenness . . . with her sparky wit and refusal to be silenced . . . She remains my hero . . . She has remained the iron in my soul.” —Mary Beard, London Review of Books

From Marginalian Editions: a far-seeing essay collection by the iconoclastic historian Jane Ellen Harrison—heroine to generations of writers from Virginia Woolf to Mary Beard—that explores the invisible tendrils between science and the sacred, the psychology of bias, the fulcrum of progress, and the countercultural courage of changing our minds in light of new understanding.

Charles Neider

Foreword by Will Oldham

“[An] unsentimental, elegiac tale of a legendary gunslinger’s final days . . . Neider’s timeless novel sneaks up on readers with a kind of elliptical genius that simultaneously celebrates and subverts its mythos, anticipating and surpassing many of the revisionist Westerns that were to follow.” —David Wright, Library Journal, Starred Review

The 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarthy.

John Gregory Dunne

Foreword by Stephanie Danler

“The best book about Sin City ever written . . . [Dunne’s] grotesqueries aren’t drug-induced, they’re very real. His is the genuine Vegas.” —Sean Manning, Esquire

“A fine, wry, perceptive, graceful book that does as much for the dark side of the American funhouse as Hunter Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas did for the manic side.” —Jonathan Yardley, The New York Times Book Review

Vivek Shanbhag

Translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur

“Not since Kafka has a writer created such terror and tenderness on the same page. Vivek is probably the best writer writing in any language anywhere . . . If you want to read one novel from anywhere in the world, read Sakina’s Kiss.” —Mohammed Hanif

A taut story of hidden violence and self-deception from “an Indian Chekhov” (Suketu Mehta)

Kathleen Lonsdale

Foreword by Maria Popova

Marginalian Editions presents a trailblazing Quaker scientist’s slender masterwork of moral courage, penned at the height of the Cold War, envisioning a transformation of the human spirit and our politics that might enable the triumph of peace.

Brigid Brophy

Foreword by Stacey D'Erasmo

“This pitch-perfect novel, an inquiry into romanticism and disaffection, is witty, unexpectedly moving and a revelation again of Brophy’s originality. Entirely of its time, it remains ahead of itself even now.” —Ali Smith

A delightful, queer quest for love, and a comic jaunt across Europe that’s “sharp, funny and clever, and fresh as new paint” (The Times).

Ariane Bankes

“An enchanting double-helix biography . . . Contains enough mad capers, heaving proposals and dramatic death throes to be a veritable Harlequin romance for the literary set . . . It’s lacy and necessary filigree between the sober straight lines of history.” —Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review

For fans of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, this is the real-life story of Celia and Mamaine Paget: “devoted twins, whose lives and loves traversed the intellectual currents and crises of mid-twentieth century Europe” (Rupert Christiansen).

David Foster Wallace

Foreword by Sarah McNally

“Enthralling . . . Something to Do with Paying Attention has the spirit of [Wallace’s] best non-fiction . . . You open [the] text and it wakes. What is alive in it passes to the living. His attention becomes our attention.” —Patricia Lockwood, London Review of Books

David Foster Wallace’s last unfinished work, a wise and unexpected tour de force “using the IRS the way Borges used the library and Kafka used the law-courts building: as an analogy for the world.” —John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ

Ursula Parrott

Foreword by Alissa Bennett

Afterword by Marc Parrott

“Precociously aphoristic and coolly unsentimental . . . Like Fitzgerald but from a woman’s perspective . . . As if Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, and Oscar Wilde had collaborated to examine the war between the sexes in the post-Victorian era.” —Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books

An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, Ex-Wife is the story of a divorce and its aftermath that scandalized the Jazz Age—and still resonates today.

Lion Feuchtwanger

Translation revised and introduced by Joshua Cohen

Translated from the German by James Cleugh

Notes by Richard J. Evans

“A long-forgotten masterpiece published in 1933 . . . A remnant of a world sick with foreboding, incredulity, creeping fear, and—this may feel most familiar to us today—the impossibility of gauging whether a society is really at the breaking point.” —Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic

Written in real time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933, The Oppermanns captures the fall of Weimar Germany through the eyes of one bourgeois Jewish family, shocked and paralyzed by an ideology they cannot comprehend.

Gary Indiana

“Literature with the filter off . . . Rent Boy is a multi-faceted little gem . . . the sort of funny, sick, weird little book you never forget.” —John Self, The Critic

A noir tour-de-force set in a world of hustlers by “a shark in US literature’s calm waters” (The Guardian).

E. B. White

Foreword by Martha White

“Jewels of observation . . . A world described in such loving detail overflows with wonders: The rigorous attention in Sketches is a kind of re-enchantment.” —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post

E. B. White’s greatest stories, asides, essays, jokes, and tall tales about the city he arguably saw clearest, loved best, and skewered most mercilessly.

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Margaret Kennedy

“The perfect seaside holiday read. We’re in Cornwall in 1947, where a landslide has buried a hotel, fatally crushing guests in the rubble . . . The nail-biting tension to discover who actually survived the tragedy will keep you on the very edge of your deckchair.” —Val Hennessy, The Daily Mail

A hilarious and ingenious upstairs-downstairs tragicomedy from postwar England, set at a doomed seaside resort. 

John Bowen

“Genteel, if peculiar, mayhem is in store . . . [For] people who like Myra Breckinridge as well as Miss Marple; fans of Beryl Bainbridge, Russell Greenan and Patricia Highsmith; those who feel Barbara Pym-ish on some days and Stephen King-ish on others.” —Michele Slung, The Washington Post

A wry, macabre tale of simple country living, brutal murder, and a reasonably happy couple, from our “most startlingly offbeat suspense novelist” (Gore Vidal). 

Wilfrid Sheed

Foreword by Gerald Howard

“A masterpiece . . . One of the few genuinely comic novels since Lucky Jim.” —Elaine Dundy

“If Joseph Heller, Henry James, Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis collaborated on a scathing novel of cubicle mutiny, it might resemble Wilfrid Sheed’s delightful Office Politics.” —Robert Allen Papinchak, The Times Literary Supplement

Dorothy Parker

Foreword by Sloane Crosley

“Does anyone know how hard it is to be that funny? . . . Read her book reviews. Read them now and see how good they are.”  —Fran Lebowitz

“In Parker’s hands, the humble book review becomes an instrument as expressive as a lyric poem.” —Nicholas Frankel, The Wall Street Journal

Dorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing.

John Gregory Dunne

Foreword by Stephanie Danler

“The best book about Sin City ever written . . . [Dunne’s] grotesqueries aren’t drug-induced, they’re very real. His is the genuine Vegas.” —Sean Manning, Esquire

“A fine, wry, perceptive, graceful book that does as much for the dark side of the American funhouse as Hunter Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas did for the manic side.” —Jonathan Yardley, The New York Times Book Review

Edmund White

Foreword by Garth Greenwell

“Artful vignettes from a life passed between Bohemian and cafe societies, in Italy and Spain, on a decaying American estate, on the New York piers . . . It is exquisite prose . . . A writer of great talent and high art.” —John Yohalem, The New York Times

The letters of a seducer to the great love of his life, a sensual tour-de-force by “the paterfamilias of queer literature” (New York Times). 

Kay Dick

Afterword by Lucy Scholes

“A creepily prescient tale in which anonymous mobs target artists and destroy their art for the crime of individual vision. Insidiously horrifying!” —Margaret Atwood

A rediscovered, dystopian classic about a mass movement to quash individuality and art—“queer, English, a masterpiece.” (Hilton Als)

Martha Dickinson Bianchi

Edited and with a foreword by Anthony Madrid

“Emily Dickinson springs to life in this remarkable, long-out-of-print biography written by her niece . . . Though millions of pages have been written about Dickinson . . . few have provided such a thrilling close-up portrait. Readers will be rapt from the first page.” —Publishers Weekly  (Starred Review)

Penelope Mortimer

A breakthrough novel of suburban loneliness and subversion—“her style, spare and singular, cuts through the decades like a scalpel” (Rachel Cooke, The Observer)

Gavin Lambert

“1971, in the city of Los Angeles, where the earth trembles and the hedonistic sun shines no matter what . . . Like Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust . . . The Goodby People is irradiated by the inherently metaphorical properties of Los Angeles.” —Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books

First published in 1971, The Goodby People is perhaps the greatest novel ever written about post-Manson, pre-Disney Los Angeles. “His elegant, stripped-down prose caught the last gasp of Old Hollywood in a way that has yet to be rivaled.” (Armistead Maupin)

Han Suyin

Foreword by Sarah Waters

“[A] silvery, suggestive novella of love and friendship. The year is 1944, the place is London, and all the young men are at war. We find ourselves at Horsham Science College with a group of women . . . Read if you like: Sally Rooney, E.M. Forster, the Todd Haynes film Carol.” —Molly Young, The New York Times

An unheralded queer classic by a groundbreaking Eurasian writer, Winter Love is the stirring account of a life-altering affair in wartime London—“Han Suyin’s outstanding achievement . . . her finest novel.” (Alison Hennegan)

Djuna Barnes

Edited and with a foreword by Merve Emre

“Like a dark lesbian genius rolling in a giant heap of damp, dead leaves.” —Eileen Myles

“This supple collection from Barnes shaves the themes of lost innocence, unrequited love, and death of her modernist masterwork, Nightwood, into febrile confessions . . . These memorable sketches unfurl a barbed wisdom of the grave.” —Publishers Weekly

The best of Djuna Barnes’s dark, droll, incisive short fiction, spanning her all-too-brief career, edited and introduced by Merve Emre.

John Broderick

Foreword by Colm Tóibín

“Pulsating with passion, parochialism, guilt and greed, this exposé of scandal and secrets is shocking and witty.” —Sally Morris, The Daily Mail

An erotic nightmare of Catholic longing, guilt, and desire and a banned classic of modern Irish literature.

Michael W. Clune

With a new foreword by the author

“If you’ve ever wanted to know what an exceptional critical mind looks like on drugs, read White Out . . . A hilarious and scandalous and frightening chronicle of full-blown heroin addiction (and graduate school!) . . . The best book about drugs since [Baudelaire’s] Les Paradis Artificiels.” —Ben Lerner, The New Yorker, Best Books of the Year

The tenth-anniversary edition of Michael Clune’s classic memoir of addiction and recovery, with a new preface by the author.

Maxine Clair

“How rare it is to find a book that contains such indelible characters, and such enormity of heart. Welcome back, Rattlebone, may you get all the love and attention you have long deserved.” —Ann Patchett

Too long unavailable, this luminous classic of small-town life in the segregated 1950s has “magic dust sprinkled over each and every page” (Veronica Chambers, New York Times Book Review).

Grégoire Bouillier

Translated from the French by Ben Truman

“Somewhere out in the woeful constellation of literary comparison, a lonely satellite drifts between remote stars—Ulysses and Mrs. Dalloway, The Stranger and When Harry Met Sally . . . This perfect little book [says]: We are human, heartbroken, grim, and funny in our despair, yet hopeful and miracle-prone, and some of us are French.” —John Hodgman

A “frank and wry, mad and graceful” true story about getting dumped, and getting over it. (Slate, Best Books of the Year)

Mary Gaitskill

“Gaitskill is an era-defining talent, one of the best American fiction writers working today, and the book is a collage of fiction, autobiography, and fairy tale that seeks, through ‘ordered disorder,’ to approach a fundamental thing about making art.” —Valerie Stivers, Compact Magazine

A bewitching collage of fiction, memoir, and mythography from the author unique in her “ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we don’t even know we are living.” (Parul Sehgal, New York Times Magazine) 

Todd Grimson

“If Raymond Chandler or Flannery O’Connor had written a vampire novel, it might read with the brutal and passionate clarity of Stainless . . . The ultimate late night in L.A.” —Katherine Dunn

A bloody, erotic love story from “the greatest horror writer you’ve never read . . . In Stainless, Todd Grimson set out to write ‘the Ultimate, Final Vampire Novel’—and succeeded.” (The Guardian)

Alston Anderson

Afterword by Kinohi Nishikawa

“A gem of Americana . . . These stories span the early decades of the 20th century and address with nuance the Black characters’ negotiations with youthful turmoil, sexual desire, and race in the U.S. . . . This deserves a place on the shelf of mid-century classics.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

A classic of 1950s Black fiction: stories of loners, outsiders, tricksters, addicts, jazzmen, and drifters in the Jim Crow South by “a writer with a perfect ear, a warm heart, and an amazing capacity to seize character and make it live” (Selden Rodman, The New York Times)

Ann Schlee

Foreword by Lauren Groff

“Enchanting . . . She writes historical novels that are more advanced, more interested in feminism, for instance, than her contemporaries . . . Ann Schlee’s wider vision is adventurous and sunlit.” —Jane Gardam, Slightly Foxed

On a Victorian pleasure cruise, a chance encounter opens the floodgates to desire, regret, and possibility in this “little period gem of feeling and clarity”  (The Guardian), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Hockley Clarke

Foreword by Maria Popova

“Each page [is] a radiance of curiosity and kindness, the whole of it a bright assurance of the tenacity of life . . . To extend [friendship] across the barrier of biology and sentience, to another creature endowed with a wholly other consciousness, partakes of the miraculous.” —Maria Popova, from the Foreword

From Marginalian Editions comes a moving meditation on our connection with other creatures, told through the unforgettable story of a family of blackbirds sharing a birder’s backyard garden. 

COMING JUL 21, 2026

Éric Rohmer

Foreword by André Aciman

Translated from the French by Aaron Kerner

“The father of the French New Wave . . . Rohmer’s surfaces aren’t placid but taut; they’re smooth because of their almost unbearably high tension.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Witty banter, lust, ennui, and an undercurrent of violence underlie a seemingly paradisiacal summer on the eve of World War II, in this landmark translation of the first and only novel by Éric Rohmer, the French New Wave’s most prolific and beloved filmmaker.

COMING JUL 7, 2026

Robert G. Penner

“Tastefully insane and morbidly fun . . . delightfully realistic . . . Dante’s Inferno as envisioned by Monty Python. A sidesplitting pleasure.” —Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

The empire on which the sun never sets has turned its ambitions toward a land where it’s never even risen: Victorian Britain is colonizing Hell itself.

COMING SEP 2026

Agnes Owens

Foreword by Megan Nolan

“A hidden treasure of Scottish literature, read this and then read all her other works.” —Douglas Stuart

A mordant, cautionary tale about a working-class woman hemmed in on all sides, from the writer Alasdair Gray called “the most unfairly neglected” in Scottish literature.

COMING OCT 2026

Margaret Wise Brown

Illustrations by Ofra Amit

Afterword by Maria Popova

“I fell instantly under the spell of this crepuscular story aglow with love and longing . . . Margaret’s love letter to the mystery of death . . . bittersweet and beautiful like the transience of life itself.” —Maria Popova, from the Afterword

A Marginalian Editions rediscovery, by the author of Goodnight Moon: Margaret Wise Brown’s little-known, deeply moving modern fable about love and loss.

COMING OCT 2026

E. B. White

Foreword by Martha White

“Jewels of observation . . . A world described in such loving detail overflows with wonders: The rigorous attention in Sketches is a kind of re-enchantment.” —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post

Now in a beautiful hardcover gift edition: E. B. White’s wisest and wittiest homages to his beloved, bedeviled, beguiling New York City.

COMING NOV 2026

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By Arthur A. Cohen

Foreword by Joshua Cohen

“A novel of clarity and valor that explores the inmost lining of intellectual fame . . . Wherein the power of a singular mind grows into wisdom and wisdom into heroism.” —Cynthia Ozick

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction: A captivating portrait of a courageous anti-authoritarian thinker living in exile, inspired by the life story of Hannah Arendt. 

COMING NOV 2026

By Lara Pawson

Foreword by Teju Cole

“Through the length of this short book a woman’s thoughts are drifting, as it might be towards sleep but constantly jarring the reader wide awake. Who is she, and why do her thoughts turn to sex and violent death when prompted by everyday objects as banal as a fridge magnet? Lara Pawson is a writer for the end of times and Spent Light deserves to survive them.”  —Tom Stoppard

COMING JAN 2027