Arcade imprint: 531 books
Bookless in Baghdad
Reflections on Writing and Writers
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
“This amalgam of essay, literary criticism, and memoir blends into a tribute to the world of books,” from the acclaimed Indian writer (Chicago Tribune).
Born in London, and raised in Bombay and Calcutta, Shashi Tharoor was eleven years old when “an otherwise detestable teacher” dictated...
For All the Obvious Reasons
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Short fiction about the drama that lurks under the surface of our lives, by “a gifted writer” (The New York Times Book Review).
These nine distinctive tales explore the passions and emotions that we struggle with as we try to navigate our way through challenging realities. A woman living a...
Hurtling Toward Happiness
A Mother and Teenage Son’s Road Trip from Blues to Bonding In a Really Small Car
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
“Highly recommended for all parents . . . This memoir will alternately cause readers to smile and tear up . . . Filled with warmth, affection, and good humor” (Library Journal).
When Claudia’s sixteen-year-old son, Ross, announces he’s quitting high school and leaving home a year...
The City and the House
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A novel revolving around a house in Rome and its various inhabitants, from “a glowing light of modern Italian literature” (The New York Times Book Review).
Le Margherite is a house in Rome that has seen many comings and goings. Among them is Lucrezia, mother of five and lover of many. Among...
by Anna Fishbeyn
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
“How Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw might have sounded if she’d been born with a Russian Jewish mother . . . Terrific fun” (Janis Cooke Newman, author of A Master Plan for Rescue).
This is the entertaining tale of Emma Kaulfield as she tries to find her own path in life—while...
Juggling the Stars
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2001
“Better than Silence of the Lambs . . . Macabre fun orchestrated with immaculate precision. It’s a killer” (Los Angeles Times).
Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona and is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged...
Hell and Back
Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The author of the New York Times Notable Book Italian Neighbors shares his insights on classic and modern literature.
In this brilliant collection of essays, Tim Parks, a celebrated novelist and master of the essay form, offers a wide range of wonderfully challenging and always provocative reflections...
Not Dead Yet
A Feisty Bohemian Explores the Art of Growing Old
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
From a revered writer of the Beat Generation: a “tour de force” that contemplates aging—and how to make the most of it (Booklist).
In this energetic, optimistic memoir, Herb Gold looks back on his life, not with regret or wistful recollections—but as a constant, ongoing journey. In a fascinating...
The Woman Who Waited
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
In the 1970s, a woman keeps vigil for a lover lost in World War II, in a “sensuously styled, elegiac” novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers (Publishers Weekly).
Near the end of World War II, nineteen-year-old Boris Koptek left the small village of Mirnoe to join the Russian army....
Lost on Treasure Island
A Memoir of Longing, Love, and Lousy Choices in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This brutally funny true story of sex and success is “in a class with Nick Hornby at his best and Candace Bushnell in her dreams” (Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run).
When Midwesterner Steve Friedman arrived in Manhattan raring to go and ready to conquer, he soon found pitfalls more...
by Octavio Paz
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
A collection of essays from the Nobel Prize–winning author. “Brilliant . . . A stimulating book, electric in its energies, the shock of its thought” (The Boston Globe**).**
In its front-page review of Alternating Current, The New York Times Book Review called Octavio Paz “an intellectual...
by Octavio Paz
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Critical essays by the Nobel Prize winner on writers from Solzhenitsyn to Sartre.
Poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide...
Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets
An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
“A moving portrait of life as a war correspondent [and] an action-packed account of the civil war in Yemen from a woman who experienced it firsthand” (Kirkus Reviews).
Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later—after a friend at a late-night party in Washington,...
Doing Time
25 Years of Prison Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
A PEN American Center Prize Anthology featuring a quarter century of prison inmates’ prose and verse—with a foreword by Sister Helen Prejean.
For more than three decades, the prestigious writers’ organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these...