Nicolas Fiorillo is a brilliant and ambitious fifteen-year-old from the slums of Naples, eager to make his mark and to acquire power and the money that comes with it. With nine friends, he sets out to create a new paranza, or gang. Together they...

For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart, it was only recently that we...

Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into memory storage in the brain, is one of the pioneers of modern brain science. His work continues to shape our understanding of how learning and memory...

In Ling Ma’s wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance, Candace Chen spends her days self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, devoted to routine. She goes to work, rides the subway, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So she barely notices when...

At the opening of Laura van den Berg's The Third Hotel, we see Clare arrive in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema. She was supposed to be there with her film scholar husband, Richard, but he was...

On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the village,...

In the years since his daughter Vanessa moved to America to become a professor of philosophy, Alan Querry has never been to visit. He has been too busy at home in northern England, holding together his business as a successful property developer. His younger...

My German Brother is a novel from renowned Brazilian musician and author Chico Buarque about a man’s lifelong search for his possibly imaginary half-brother. In 1960s São Paulo, teenage Ciccio finds a decades-old letter inside one of his father’s books, revealing an affair his...

Tim Winton is Australia’s most decorated and beloved novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin Literary Awards for Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled among writers in English. His work...

Philip Roth, one of the most renowned writers of our time, passed away last week at the age of 85 in Manhattan. We are extremely honored to have published some of his work. The following is an excerpt from Roth Unbound, Claudia Roth...

Tom Wolfe, a pioneering voice of his generation, passed away this week at the age of 88 in New York City. We are extremely honored to have published fourteen of his books. The following is an excerpt from The Right Stuff, his nonfiction...

In her debut essay collection Things That Helped, Jessica Friedmann navigates her recovery from postpartum depression. The essays weave a memoir that touches on class, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as motherhood and mental illness. Each essay chooses a separate totemic object...

Teju Cole says he is "a genius." The New York Times calls him "the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of." Gerald Murnane is a singular writer finally receiving his due attention. Read here his story "Land Deal," from the...

Brothers Andre and Smoker were raised in a cauldron of their parents’ failed marriage and appetite for destruction, and find themselves in the same straits as adults—navigating not only their own marriages but also their parents’ frequent collisions with the law and each other....

One day Beth disappears. Few think anything of it, assuming she’s run off with a man. Only her best friend Natalie is convinced that something more sinister is going on and is determined to find Beth at any cost. Victor, a patron of the...

From Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa comes The Neighborhood, a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. The novel is set in the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori’s presidency, and centers on two...

Now an Oscar-nominated motion picture starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, André Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name is a “brave, acute, elated, naked, brutal, tender, humane, and beautiful” love story (Nicole Krauss). The book traces the sudden and powerful romance that grows...

On March 24, 1946, world chess champion Alexander Alekhine—infamous for his eccentric behavior as well as the ruthlessness of his playing style—was found dead in his hotel room in Estoril, Portugal. Written with the mood of a thriller, the insight of a poem, and...

Helen Smith’s An Uncommon Reader offers a deep dive into the life of Edward Garnett, a literary genius who forever changed English literature. As an editor, critic, and reader for hire, Garnett was known for his strong convictions and sharp critiques. Garnett helped...

After Karl Temperley’s seventeen-credit-card Ponzi scheme fails, he finds himself facing jail time. A mysterious program called The Transition, in which couples spend six months being coached through adult life, seems to offer an unexpected way out. This excerpt takes us into Karl and...