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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.

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)

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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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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).

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). 

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)

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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).