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Many cultural and religious traditions make space for grief, urging the bereaved to withdraw from daily life and tend to their sorrow. But in today’s world, grief is often met not with stillness, but with bureaucracy and to-do lists. That’s exactly what confronted Geraldine...

In less than a decade, Jean-Michel Basquiat rose from tagging walls in New York City to commanding the spotlight of the global art world. Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art traces his electrifying journey through the turbulent, glamorized 1980s—a time of artistic revolution, celebrity...

Written in 1935 during the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until a decade later, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a strange and erotic fable tracing a young girl’s unsettling passage into womanhood, set in motion by her first menstruation. Drawing...

Ukraine, 2022. Yeva is a solitary, stubborn scientist, drifting through the countryside in her mobile lab, obsessively—and unsuccessfully—trying to breed rare snails. Her family begs her to settle down, marry, and abandon her work. What they don’t know: Yeva already dates, but not for...

Visionary and Everyday. Vampires, ghosts, and other uncanny beings haunt the pages of this rich anthology of 19th-century fantastic literature, selected and introduced by Italo Calvino—one of the 20th century’s great literary visionaries. Published posthumously, Fantastic Tales gathers a captivating range of eerie, enchanting,...

Long overshadowed by her marriage to Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner is now recognized as a major figure in 20th-century art—a bold innovator whose work helped shape modernism. In Lee Krasner, acclaimed biographer Gail Levin offers a richly detailed and engrossing account of an artist...

A bold, razor-sharp debut novel that explores power, desire, and the shifting moral ground of modern relationships. At its center is a charismatic English professor whose husband—also a professor at their small liberal arts college—is under investigation for alleged affairs with former students. The...

In contemporary New York City, an Albanian interpreter reluctantly agrees to assist in the therapy sessions of Alfred, a Kosovar man scarred by torture. Despite her husband’s warnings, she becomes increasingly drawn into her client’s inner world—Alfred’s trauma begins to awaken her own long-suppressed...

Anna and Tom, an expat couple in Berlin, seem to have built the perfect life. Young, creative, and proudly freelance, they transform taste into a career and their lifestyle into a brand. For a time, it feels effortless—work and love aligned, the city itself...

Merricat Blackwood lives tucked away on her family’s secluded estate with her sister Constance and their ailing Uncle Julian. Once there were seven Blackwoods—until a spoonful of sugar, laced with arsenic, turned an ordinary dinner into a massacre. Constance was accused but ultimately acquitted,...

Beneath Oxford’s dreaming spires, Ella Durran finally sees her childhood dream take shape. At twenty-four, the American student has earned a coveted Rhodes Scholarship, a year in England she’s planned for more than a decade. She even secures a remote role on a U.S....

Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler is less a novel and more a literary spell—a dazzling exploration of what it means to read, to write, and to lose yourself between the lines. First published in 1979, this postmodern masterpiece doesn’t offer...

Parable, 1. As climate catastrophe and economic collapse plunge the early 2020s into chaos, California becomes a landscape of scarcity and violence. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives in a walled community with her preacher father, family and neighbors, clinging to a fragile sense of order...

Parable, 2. By 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the devastation of her home and family, and brought her vision to life: a fledgling community in Northern California built on the principles of Earthseed, the faith she founded. In a fractured, volatile America—now ruled by...

Lispector’s most provocative and unforgettable novel. The Passion According to G.H. (1964) follows G.H., a privileged sculptress in Rio de Janeiro, whose ordinary life is upended in a single moment. When she enters her maid’s room, she encounters a cockroach crawling from a wardrobe....

Covert Joy presents Lispector at her most luminous, offering readers a selection of her best-loved stories, including “The Smallest Woman in the World,” “Love,” “Family Ties,” and “The Egg and the Chicken.” Known for her extraordinary ability to illuminate life’s smallest, most revelatory moments,...

Emily appears to have it all: a beautiful Upper East Side townhouse, two bright children, and a husband—Jack—who seems devoted. But beneath the surface, her marriage is eroding. Jack’s seemingly gentle demeanor masks subtle coercion and emotional abuse, undermining Emily’s confidence and sense of...

Step inside the rarefied world of an elite Chinese couple—a life defined by wealth, luxury, and constant service, anchored by their devoted nanny, Yu Ling. Quiet and observant, she moves seamlessly through their household, caring for their only son and keeping watch over the...

Expanded Edition: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering. This book reveals the root cause of psychological and emotional suffering—and how to liberate yourself from it. You’ll learn how to access a deeper sense of peace and clarity, empowering you to...

An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company bookshop and the best writers of our timeShakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been...

A daring, boundary-pushing bestseller from one of Norway’s most celebrated novelists, ideal for fans of Annie Ernaux and Coco Mellors. Thirty, married young, and mother of two, she records in her diary a waiting for heartbreak to reveal her true self—but instead feels an...

In this gripping and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie, a luxury cruise turns chillingly claustrophobic when one woman witnesses a crime no one else believes occurred. Lo Blacklock, a travel journalist, has just landed the assignment of a lifetime: a week aboard the...

A reserved young man leaves his quiet village in rural Turkey to learn a trade and experience life in 1920s Berlin. Amid the city’s vibrant streets, grand museums, fervent politics, and notorious cabarets, a chance encounter with a captivating half-Jewish artist changes him forever....

In the quiet town of Bonhomie, Ohio, a fleeting moment of passion in the jubilant days following the Allied victory in Europe forever binds two families. Cal Jenkins—wounded not by war, but by his failure to fight in it—finds himself drawn to Margaret Salt,...

 The Charlatan Duology #1 A modern dark fantasy of betrayals, secret societies, and a dissolute thief of shadows. Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn’t pick, a book she couldn’t steal, or a bad decision she wouldn’t make. She's spent half her...

When Oliver Marks walks out of prison after ten years, the man waiting for him is the one who put him there. Detective Colborne has only one question left—what really happened? And this time, Oliver is ready to tell the truth. A decade earlier,...

Lana Farrar—a reclusive former movie star and one of the most famous women on earth—hosts a select group of friends each year on her private Greek island, a sun-drenched escape from the gloom of England’s spring. You might think you know this story. You...

A wry, incisive satire of envy and ambition following a failed novelist’s absurd quest to sabotage his more successful rival―with a new introduction by James Wood. Richard Tull, a failed and disillusioned novelist, seethes with envy as he watches his longtime friend Gwyn Barry,...

Set in 1962, The Shape of Water follows Elisa Esposito, a mute janitor living a quiet, lonely life on the night shift at Baltimore’s Occam Aerospace Research Center. Her world is small, held together by the kindness of her coworker Zelda and her gentle...

Villains #2. A super-powered collision of extraordinary minds and vengeful intentions―V. E. Schwab returns with the thrilling follow-up to Vicious. Marcella Riggins isn’t looking for a partner. She’s done watching iconic duos burn themselves out—Magneto and Xavier, Superman and Luthor, Victor Vale and Eli...

Prince Myshkin, just twenty-six, returns to Russia after several years in a Swiss sanatorium, hoping to claim an inheritance and simply “live among people.” Before he even arrives, he encounters the brooding Rogozhin, the wealthy merchant’s son whose fixation on the captivating Nastasya Filippovna...

Sylvie Castellano knows all about being left behind. Every summer her friends disappear to distant beaches, her parents sail off to work on a luxury yacht, and she’s handed over—again—to her beloved but predictable Tía Vivian. Sylvie adores her aunt, but she longs for...

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to...

Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite can’t wait to escape to college. At home, she lives under the suffocating control of her domineering, self-absorbed father, a writer who keeps both Natalie and her weary mother firmly under his thumb. Yet once she finally leaves, the freedom she...

The Poppy War #2 The war is finished.And yet, it’s only beginning. Nikan has survived three devastating Poppy Wars, and though the latest conflict has barely cooled, shaman-soldier Rin is haunted by the massacre she unleashed to save her nation. Burdened by guilt, chained...

A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language Why is a mortgage literally a “death pledge”? Why do guns bear girls’ names? How is “salt” connected to “soldier”? The Etymologicon unravels these mysteries—and countless more—offering a dazzling journey through the hidden...

Wren Darlington has spent her entire life in the shadows, sharpening her psychic abilities and quietly supporting the rebel Uprising. On the Continent, being Modified is a death sentence—and Wren is one of the most powerful Mods alive. So when a single mistake lands...

Just after landing at LAX following an overseas conference, Sara is stopped by agents from the Risk Assessment Administration and given shocking news: according to an algorithm that analyzes dreams, she is on the verge of committing a violent crime—against her own husband. For...

A bold, feminist reimagining of Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour—her confinement in a remote island fortress, surrounded by a few loyal women and sustained by a dangerous dream of escape and reclaimed power. Scotland, 1567. Pregnant and deposed, Mary is seized by rebel...

Set on the slopes of Mount Hakodate in northern Japan, Café Donna Donna is famous not only for its beautiful harbor view, but also for its mysterious ability to let visitors travel through time. In Before Your Memory Fades, the third installment in the...

Before the Coffee Gets Cold #5 In the fifth installment of the beloved Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, the enigmatic café where time travel is possible—so long as you return before your coffee cools—opens its doors to four more hopeful visitors: A father...

Vigil follows the final night in the life of K.J. Boone, a powerful and controversial oil magnate. The story is narrated by Jill “Doll” Blaine, a spirit-guide whose task since her own death has been to accompany souls as they transition to the afterlife....

Do not touch the blade.Do not turn the key.Do not open the gate. Saeris Fane, twenty-four and sharper than any knife she’s ever stolen, is an expert at hiding the truth. No one knows about the strange, mercurial magic humming beneath her skin—or that...

Welcome back to the Kokoro Clinic—a place with no fixed address, yet somehow always discovered by those who need healing most. Here, the simple but profound prescription of a cat continues to mend emotional wounds in ways nothing else can. This enchanting sequel introduces...

Petra Rose’s words once set the page ablaze. But after a viral backlash against her latest film adaptation, her career—and her confidence—burned to ashes. Branded a fraud and a fame-seeker, Petra retreated from the public eye, leaving deadlines missed, bills unpaid, and her creativity...

A cat a day keeps the doctor away… Hidden within an old building at the end of a narrow Kyoto alley, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul reveals itself only to those who are truly struggling—and ready for help. This enigmatic clinic offers an...

From Megha Majumdar, the acclaimed author of A Burning, longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a gripping new novel set in a near-future Kolkata, India—a city ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, where two families’ fierce love for their children sets them...

Mysterious and utterly mesmerizing, this graphic-novel-within-a-novel pairs the extraordinary prose of David Almond with the visual genius of Dave McKean.Blue Baker is writing a story — not all that stuff about wizards and fairies and happily ever after — a real story, about blood...

Aubrey has been haunted by the night that shattered her life ten years ago, and she’s certain Benjamin Bayliss knows more than he’s letting on. Raised in a house full of criminals, Aubrey knows there’s more than one way to get at the truth—and...

Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive and sharp all at once. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Always wanting. And what she wants most is Mr. Korgy—her creative writing teacher, with the wife and the child and the mortgage and the bills; with the...