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A profound tale of honor, memory, and community set in the town of Port William, Kentucky, from “the prophet of rural America” (New York Times). “An elegiac celebration of the end of innocence” (Kirkus Reviews), Berry’s fifth novel is set against the turmoil of the World War II, A...

This, the first title in the Port William series, introduces the rural section of Kentucky with which novelist Wendell Berry has had a lifelong fascination. When young Nathan loses his grandfather, Berry guides readers through the process of Nathan's grief, endearing the reader to the simple humanity...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION AUTHOR IS THE WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN/MALAMUD AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE SHORT STORY Named 1 of 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2017 by The...

"Devi S. Laskar's The Atlas of Reds and Blues is as narratively beautiful as it is brutal. In prose that moves between cushioning characters' falls and ushering our understandings of characters' utopias, Laskar creates a world where the consequences of American terror never stop reverberating. I've...

The sole definitive collection of Jhabvala's work, with an introduction by the author's friend, writer Anita Desai, The only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Academy Award, Jhabvala is the author of beloved works including Out of India and Heat and Dust, as well as many short stories For...

She has received the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award by the American Academy of Arts & Letters, two PEN/O. Henry awards, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant Freed’s short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic...

James Salter was an extremely beloved author and this is the first publication of his work to be published posthumously. Salter is a PEN/Faulker and PEN/Malamud award winner An important addition for accounts with serious literary sections, with shelving also encouraged in travel and criticism Course adoption opportunities Goodreads giveaways

Wendell Berry proposes, and earnestly hopes, that people will learn once more to care for their local communities, and so begin a restoration that might spread over our entire nation and beyond. The renewed development of local economies would help preserve rural diversity despite the burgeoning global...

“This book is both brief and miraculous, and it will be finished before you’re ready to let it go. Like life.” —Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth When Cheryl Strayed was asked by The Boston Globe to name a book she finds herself recommending time and again, she chose The Glen Rock...

Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry’s caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. Long before Whole Foods organic produce was available at your local supermarket, Berry was farming with the purity of food in mind. For the...

Discover a vivid, atmospheric portrait of mid-century Manhattan with this collection of “Talk of the Town” pieces from the pages of The New Yorker. During the 1950s and 1960s, Maeve Brennan contributed numerous vignettes to the New Yorker’s ”Talk of the Town” department, under the...

“We watch what is moving fast from a platform that is also moving fast,” writes Geoffrey O’Brien in the beginning of Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows. This collection-gathering the best of a decade’s worth of writing on film by one of our most bracing and imaginative critics-ranges freely over...

“A gripping murder story and incandescent moral fable, set in hardscrabble Eastern Washington during the Great Depression.” —The Seattle Times   In Lonesome Animals, Arthur Strawl, a tormented former lawman, is called out of retirement to hunt a serial killer with a sense of the macabre who...

Motherland is inspired by stories from the author’s father and his German childhood, and letters between her grandparents that were hidden in an attic wall for fifty years. It is the author’s attempt to reckon with the paradox of her father-a product of her grandparents’ fiercely protective...