By Australia's greatest contemporary author, an elegant, succinct meditation on what makes for a happy life. ;-) "Happiness surely is among the simplest of human emotions and the most spontaneous,"...

Set in a small town in Switzerland, The Pledge centers around the murder of a young girl and the detective who promises the victim's mother he will find the perpetrator. After deciding the wrong man...

One of the most gifted poets of our time, Adam Zagajewski is a contemporary classic. Few writers in poetry or prose have attained the lucid intelligence and limpid economy of style that are the...

A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by Olivie Blake, author of the bestselling Atlas Series, and series editor John Joseph Adams. The Best American...

A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by Edgar-winning author and screenwriter Megan Abbott and series editor Steph Cha. The Best American series, launched in...

"The great Kenyan writer and Nobel Prize nominee Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo's powerful fictional critique of capitalism One of the cornerstones of Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo's fame, Devil on the Cross was written in...

"A wildlife refuge worker in South Texas who gets tangled up in a romantic relationship with a much younger male intern"-- Provided by publisher.

"Original stories by some of the world's best established and emerging SF writers envisioning futures at the edge of science and storytelling-from the vast reaches of time and space to the limits of...

From one of the greatest—and most controversial—writers of the 20th century comes a mesmerizing work of political imagination about a European woman's self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues,...

Joe Mondragon, 36, is a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble who slams his battered pickup to a stop, tugs on his gumboots, and marches into an arid patch of ground. Then, illegally, he taps into...

"A collection of poetry by dg nanouk okpik"--

Gary Snyder has been a major cultural force in America for five decades?prize-winning poet, environmental activist, Zen Buddhist, earth-householder, and reluctant counterculture guru. Having expanded...

"Both Pound and Williams have shown how a good poet can revitalize prose style. Earth House Hold (a play on the root meanings of 'ecology'), drawn from Gary's essays and journals, may prove a...