Often I wake in the night, or the cat wakes me, and since I have been trying to break the habit of  reaching for my phone—that express route to “the portal” (per Patricia Lockwood)—what do I do? Sometimes a yoga-inspired (and undoubtedly inauthentic) body...

Every April, we observe National Poetry Month by honoring how integral poetry is to our past, present, and future. But this year, we wanted to expand the celebration outwards, and spotlight other organizations and their work in keeping poetry vital, alive, and accessible for...

"Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz has given us the first fictional depiction of Jewish life in Germany in the final months before the war, a keenly observed sociological snapshot as well as an insightful psychological portrait of the protagonist. The Passenger is a disabused, prophetic, and...

Once again, Farrar, Straus and Giroux celebrates Poetry Month, which falls, in the words of Shakespeare, in “proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim” (Sonnet 98). Jonathan Galassi has been instrumental in publishing poetry at FSG and will be awarded the 2021 Academy of...

CITRUS SHERBET makes 1 heaping quart Spring 2021 has brought on a massive craving for Creamsicle bars. I haven’t eaten one since the eighties so I’m thinking this desire might have something to do with the perfect cocktail of getting vaccinated, the possibility of a slow...

Enter FSG’s 75th Anniversary Sweepstakes for a chance to win nine of our biggest hits in literature from each decade, drawing from our most celebrated authors! THINKING FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman GILEAD by Marilynne Robinson THE VIRGIN SUICIDES by Jeffrey Eugenides COLLECTED POEMS, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott ON PHOTOGRAPHY by Susan Sontag THE DREAM SONGS by John Berryman NIGHT by Elie Wiesel THE POEMS OF T.S. ELIOT: VOLUME 1 by T.S. Eliot LUSTER by Raven Leilani Farrar, Straus and Giroux was founded in 1946. Farrar, Straus and Giroux authors have won extraordinary acclaim over the years, including twenty-five Nobel Prizes in Literature and numerous National Book Awards and Pulitzer Prizes.

Enter FSG’s Notable Books Sweepstakes for a chance to win a set of our books that were featured in the New York Times’ “100 Notable Books of 2020” list: 97,196 Words by Emmanuel Carrère; Translated from the French by John Lambert Owls of the...

Farrar, Straus and Giroux and MCD x FSG are beyond thrilled to see our titles included in Barack Obama's favorite books of 2020! Enter below for a chance to win all three of our books.

FSG is thrilled to share the stunning cover of Leone Ross's new novel, Popisho, which we will publish in April 2021. It's a lush and sensual cover—illustrated by Hayley Wall and designed by Alex Merto—for an equally lush and sensual novel. To enter the world of Popisho is to enter...

Every year at FSG, we ask our staff to come together and talk about their favorite books—old, new, or forthcoming—that they read or reread that year. This year, that sense of community feels more important than ever, as we come together to talk about...

More than twenty years ago, Jeff VanderMeer first introduced the world to the fictional city of Ambergris, a sprawling metropolis populated by artists and thieves, composers and murderers, geniuses and fools. Ambergris bristles with intellectual fervor and religious rivalries; it thrives on cultural upheaval,...

Enter for a chance to win our holiday collection including: Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght The Topeka School by Ben Lerner Jack by Marilynne Robinson Touched by the Sun by Carly Simon Wagnerism by Alex Ross Luster by Raven Leilani Garner’s Quotations by Dwight Garner

Long before he became one of the most renowned literary critics of our time, Dwight Garner started the practice of keeping a 'commonplace book' of literary quotations that spoke to him. His new book, Garner's Quotations, is a reflection of that lifelong attention—and celebration—of language....

Jonas Hassan Khemiri is a 2020 finalist for the National Book Award in Translated Literature for his book, The Family Clause, a singular novel hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a "complex portrait of a family that is both identifiable and distinctive, normal...

Can a person act freely in a system that is completely rigged, in which every action is determined from the outset? Maybe you are haunted by this question as you slog off to Town Hall to vote. Maybe it is so bothersome that you...

Joan Didion is highly regarded as a writer of both nonfiction and fiction and received the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2007. Enter below for a chance to win a set of her books including: The White Album ...

Back in 1967, the MP and philosopher Bryan Magee ventured a prediction in the Listener magazine. "Does anyone seriously believe" he asked, "that Beatles music will be an unthinkingly accepted part of daily life all over the world in the 2000s?" My old Latin teacher...

There is no other writer like Jamaica Kincaid. No one who makes the same incantatory sentences, making me feel both awe and terror. No one who is as intensely personal and hallucinatory. No one as interested in pursuing truth, even when it reveals not...

In awaiting the publication of Jack, the latest novel in Marilynne Robinson's beloved Gilead series, we asked some of FSG's younger writers to say a few words about how Marilynne's fiction has resonated in their own lives and work. The depth and acuity of...

Marilynne Robinson’s mythical world of Gilead, Iowa—the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack—and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Robinson’s Gilead...