There is an unsettling and totally frank personal story here, and a lot of raw social history as well. American Hunger, published posthumously in 1977, was originally intended as the second volume of Black Boy.

LIFE AFTER GOD is a compellingly innovative collection of stories responding to these themes. Douglas Coupland takes us into worlds we know exist but rarely see, finding rare grace amid our pre-millennium turmoil.

This book is one of the most informed studies to date of Welty’s relation to the literary mainstream of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In this book, through a brother’s devotions, the lost saint teaches us about depression, the tender ancestry of violence, the quest for harmonious relations, and finally the trick of joy.

In Lying, Lauren Slater forces us to redraw the boundary between what we know as fact and what we believe we create as fiction.

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of ...

Wideman turns seventy-five this year, and he brings the force of his substantial intellect and experience to this beautiful, stirring book, his first nonfiction in fifteen years.

The play focuses on the lives of three sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, young women of the Russian gentry who try to fill their days in order to construct a life that feels meaningful while surrounded by an array of military men, servants, ...

Starting with an overview of the publishing business in China, this book takes a long view of the profound changes in China's publishing industry, covering a period from the 'socialist transformation' under Mao to the more recent reforms, ...

I pray this book will bring Leonard home.” —Sherman Alexie, author of Indian Killer