If Men, Then, Eliza Griswold’s second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Alternately searing and hopeful, funny and fraught, the poems explore the world’s fracturing through the collapse of the ego, embodied in a character named “I”—a soul attempting to wrestle...
“Poetry is not the record of an event—it is an event.” —Robert Lowell Even in times of stillness and physical distance, reading a great poem has the ability to move us, transport us—in other words, poetry will always retain its power to feel, as Lowell...
Reminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature, yet taking equal inspiration from such modern authors as Jean Rhys, Octavia Butler, Clarice Lispector, and Jean Genet, Amina Cain's Indelicacy is at once a ghost story without a ghost, a fable without a moral, and...
Enter below for a chance to win our Women's History Month Collection that includes: Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag: Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner: Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold: Essays by Lydia Davis: High School by Sara Quin and Tegan...
I sometimes think I was born reading...I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me. In Vivian Gornick's new book, Unfinished Business, she brings us a celebration of passionate reading, of...
This is Australia, an unnamed, dead-end town in the heart of the outback—a desolate place of gas stations, fast-food franchises, and labyrinthine streets: flat and nearly abandoned. When a young writer arrives to research just such depressing middles-of-nowhere as they are choked into oblivion,...
Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches,...
S. M. Hulse's new novel Eden Mine features a small cast of core characters: Jo, a wheelchair-bound artist grappling with the government's eminent domain seizure of her family home; her radicalized brother Samuel, a fugitive from the law following an act of violent...
In Cleanness, the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deepens his exploration of foreignness, obligation, and desire. Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. In this atmosphere of...
Art is solace, art is instruction, art is provocation. We need art—fiction, poetry—this election year. Perhaps especially this election year. From the start, Farrar, Straus and Giroux has devoted itself to literature. This year, we are making a special effort to showcase the importance...
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The extraordinary authority of the U.S. presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today that authority resides in the hands of one man, Donald J. Trump. But rarely if ever has the nature of a president clashed more profoundly with the nature of...
Enter FSG’s Notable Books Sweepstakes for a chance to win a hardcover set of our books that were featured in the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2019 list: GIRL by Edna O'Brien, THE GRAMMARIANS by Cathleen Schine, THE TOPEKA SCHOOL by Ben...
In his recent New York Times op-ed, Martin Scorsese argues that in order for a movie to be more than mere entertainment—for it to be cinema—it requires “the unifying vision of an individual artist.” Most contemporary movies lack this element, Scorsese says, because...
The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Arturo Stuart, a charismatic, visionary preacher, discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen...
We can't think of anything better than giving the gift of a book. So to make your holiday shopping less hectic, we've curated a Gift Guide with something for everyone on your list: the uncle who spends an hour lecturing you on history, the...
We asked the staff of Farrar, Straus and Giroux to pick the best book published this year, name their favorite titles—old, new, or forthcoming—that they read or reread this year, and share which FSG books they’ll be gifting during the holidays.
“The Irishman is great art . . . but it is not, as we know, great history . . . For some of the real story, and for a great American tale in itself, you want to go to Jack Goldsmith’s book, In Hoffa’s Shadow.” —Peggy...
On a visit home last year, on a late-night walk, my mother and I were talking books. We were still getting used to the idea that I would be publishing one myself, and something about the combination of this news and a mother’s impulse...
For John Freeman—literary critic, essayist, editor, poet—it is the rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action was the only reasonable response. He took to the streets in protest, and...
