A sprawling new fantasy drawn from the tumultuous dynastic history of China.

An Irish novelist's sly tale of a friendship with a bit of mystery at its heart.

She made your MTV.

Down and out on the Upper East Side.

A new edition of one of the world's most brilliant works of bookmaking puts a dazzling vision on display.

The unlikely charm offensive mounted by Roger Corman and the Ramones. Read more...

In Paul Theroux's latest novel, a stymied writer is drawn into a mystery with religious overtones.

A rich new gathering of poetry from around the world.

Style and the city.

As the Wild West turned into America's garden, migrant workers moved in to harvest its yield.

The scion of a famous family delivers a surreal, scathing memoir.

The collected letters and diaries of a great novelist, lost in his prime.

A sparkling, sprawling comedy of a square peg in a family of screwballs.

In a new book of poems, the writer dives into his own youth and a nation's troubled history with love and arch wit.

The creator of Time and Life yearned to stretch beyond words and images and shape the globe.

The quiet power of a family drama might resist translation. Read more...

The celebrated writer on nature sounds a dramatic warning about the future of a fragile ecosystem. Read more...

A triumphant new collection brings together the paintings of an artist of great mystery -- and perhaps greater genius. Read more...

How a tiny island nation came to be the world's biggest exporter of big league baseball players. Read more...

A Qatari computer whiz tries to reprogram himself as an American financial genius. Read more...

A new book reproduces an extended encounter with an author who fascinated in his art, and his life.

The Kenyan novelist's autobiographical sketch is also the story of how the struggle for independence threatened to pull his people apart.

A near-future thriller set in a Russia both familiar and strange. Read more...

The new record from an innovative songwriter and performer resists the boundaries of song. Read more...

One of the most notorious episodes of the pioneering era offers a chance to consider the history of a perennial, if shadowy, film subject. Read more...

Before Jackie Robinson integrated the major leagues, white and black players met in contests that history has largely forgotten. Read more...

An enigmatic tragedy is the catalyst for this tale of a girl's negotiation of her multi-ethnic identity. Read more...

A collection of personal stories which celebrate the wild variety of the universal passion. Read more...

Punk brashness meets literary ambition in this most unusual and influential of small publishers.

A family regroups, and grandparents must re-learn old roles, in Roger Rosenblatt’s touching memoir. Read more...