Bellevue Literary Press: 69 books

“Topical, astonishing and provocative . . . a masterful collection.” -Shelf Awareness for Readers (starred review) “[Lock’s stories] are gems, rich in imagination and language . . . For all their convolutions of space and time, these stories are remarkably easy to follow and savor.”...

"A moving attempt to trace the connections between Kosinski's wartime struggles and postwar fictions." —New Yorker "Jerzy is a novel with a light touch that's still capable of lifting heavy subjects. Charyn knows what he wants to do and knows how to do it. . . . [He] show[s]...

Extremely moving fiction that leaves a stamp on the mind and heart. A stand-out collection by a writer's writer. These stories are collected here for the first time. Many of them have previously appeared in magazines such as The Northwest Review, The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, The Antioch...

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist Orion Book Award Finalist O, The Oprah Magazine “Title to Pick Up Now” “An amazing feat of imagination.” -Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid...

The Odditorium is a collection of seven stories and a novella. Most of the pieces are based on unusual or enigmatic historical figures, and all look at the ways architecture exerts subtle or unsubtle pressures on human consciousness. Melissa Pritchard's skill as a writer has been honed over...

“[Norman Lock’s fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights.” —NPR Huck Finn and Jim float on their raft across a continuum of shifting seasons, feasting on a limitless supply of fish and stolen provisions, propelled by the currents of the mighty Mississippi...

During the summer of 1969, Northern Ireland, found itself on the brink of civil war as Irish Catholic Republicans and Protestant Loyalists clashed violently in what has become known as “The Troubles.” While Forbes doesn’t elaborate on the political dimension of this historically significant...

Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book Kirkus Reviews "Best Book of the Year" selection "A richly literary account. . . . Anchored by deep reflection and scientific knowledge, A Wilder Time is a portrait of an ancient, nearly untrammeled world...

“Intense and bravely uncompromising. An adult study of pain, thwarted affection, and guarded privacies in a world at the edge of violent public breakdown. An impressive achievement.” -DAVID MALOUF, author of Ransom: A Novel and The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World Simone...

"[An] unusual meditation on sex, death, art, and Jewishness. . . . Weber weaves in musings on his own sexual and religious experiences, creating a freewheeling psychoanalytic document whose approach would surely delight the doctor, even if its conclusions might surprise him." —New Yorker "Freud's...

Doctors Without Borders Prize PEN Promotes Award GLLI (Global Literature in Libraries Initiative) Translated YA Book Prize Shortlist CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Longlist Library Journal “Best Book of the Year” selection School Library Journal “Best Adult Book 4 Teens” selection Comics Journal...

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature “A remarkable work . . . [that] documents a triumph of the human spirit over tremendous adversity.”-Harper’s “This elegantly-written tribute makes as beautiful a use of the darkness and light of one man’s life as a Halsman photograph of a...

A selection of the Scientific American book club Recommended by MSNBC, Los Angeles Times, & American Association for the Advancement of Science’s SB&F magazine “This wonderful scientific memoir captures the romance and beauty of research in precise poetic prose that is as...

“[Norman Lock’s fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights.” —NPR In Norman Lock’s fourth stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Samuel Long escapes slavery in Virginia, traveling the Underground Railroad to Walden Woods where he encounters...