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A perfect turmoil
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERThe rise, fall, and redemption of the doctor behind America’s first public school for mentally disabled peopleFrom the moment he became superintendent of the nation’s oldest public school for intellectually and developmentally disabled children in 1887 unt...
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The odditorium
Spine-tingling stories from an author whose previous short fiction collections were New York Times Notable Book and Editor's Choice selections.
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The fevers of reason
An essential collection from the writer and physician Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel calls America’s most interesting and important essayist”
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Aseroë
The aesthetic adventures of a mad mushroom hunter
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The lives they left behind
The acclaimed portrait of institutionalized patients whose abandoned possessions recall their forgotten lives“A deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness.” —Oliver SacksWhen Willard State Hospital closed its doors in 1995, after operating as one of New York State’s largest menta...
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Alpha
A beautifully told and illustrated graphic novel humanizing the urgent migrant crisis
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The sojourn
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTDAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE WINNERA stirring tale of brotherhood, coming of age, and survival during World War IThe Sojourn is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an ...
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Tinkers
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERSpecial edition featuring a new foreword by Marilynne Robinson and book club extras insideIn this deluxe tenth anniversary edition, Marilynne Robinson introduces the beautiful novel Tinkers, which begins with an old man who lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travel...
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Awkward
Startlingly imaginative nonfiction about a very particular if common and much-maligned state of being.
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Tooth of the covenant
Nathaniel Hawthorne pens a new tale to exact revenge on his ancestor, a notorious judge of the Salem witch trials Best known for his novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne was burdened by familial shame, which began with his great-great-grandfather John Hathorne, the infamously unrepentant...
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Are you here for what i'm here for?
Palpably tense and exquisitely atmospheric stories of people confronting their innermost fears
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Moss
A masterpiece of eco-fiction from an acclaimed German author making his English-language debut
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Mind wars
Minority Report meets Dr. Strangelove in the true story of how neuroscience and related technologies are shaping national defense.
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The business of naming things
Poignant tales of fathers, sons, and the search for connection from a wise new voice in American fiction
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The measure of darkness
A once-successful architect seeks the truth behind the accident that left him with a devastating brain injury
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Sergeant salinger
A shattering biographical novel of J.D. Salinger in combatJ.D. Salinger, mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn’s Salinger is a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who...
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Inukshuk
The gripping tale of a young man's obsession with an Arctic explorer’s doomed quest to find the Northwest Passage
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The body politic
The Body Politic is the first comprehensive history of the significance and struggles over science in America.
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Mourning
The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon continues as he searches for his roots through tangled childhood memories of a haunting family tragedyInternational Latino Book Award Winner * Edward Lewis Wallant Award WinnerIn Mourning, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous wanderer travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S....
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Sleeping mask
Mind-bending tales of passion, obsession, and brutality from an award-winning master of short fiction
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A wilder time
JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED NATURAL HISTORY BOOKA scientist experiences primordial wonders and the wisdom of solitude in one of Earth’s wildest and most endangered placesGreenland, one of the last truly wild places, contains a treasure trove of information on Earth’s early history embe...
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Swimming to the top of the tide
Four seasons of immersion in New England’s Great Marsh“Like Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely resonant prose her patient observations of nature’s most intimate details. As she and her husband, through summer and snow, swim their local creeks ...
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The welsh fasting girl
A nineteenth-century American journalist becomes deeply invested in the tragic case of a young Welsh girl deemed a miracle
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Aaron's leap
A multigenerational saga inspired by Bauhaus artists and the impact of the Holocaust’s lingering legacy on their children and protégésIn a Europe torn by war and revolution, Berta Altmann comes of age as a gifted artist and independent woman. Her search for freedom leads her from Vienna to the Ba...
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The best of the bellevue literary review
Selections from the well-regarded magazine featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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Understories
In Understories, Horvath seats Italo Calvino and Tobias Wolff at a single table and insists that both order without menus.
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The anatomist
"Hayes pays eloquent tribute to two masterpieces: the human body and the book detailing it."--Publishers Weekly
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I thought i could fly
Stunning portraits--in words and photographs--of tragedy and hope in confronting mental illness.
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Beyond uncertainty
Now in paperback: Heisenberg's life reconsidered for the twenty-first century by the world's leading English-language authority.
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Murmur
A novel based on the darkest chapter in the life of genius Alan Turing
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The bear
From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth’s last two human inhabitants, and a girl’s journey homeIn an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some b...
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Autopsy of a father
A journalist’s suicide reveals a country on the verge of implosion in this intimate portrait of family disintegration.
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Come on up
Global capitalism fails young Barcelona couples in this dynamic debut“Heartbreaking and hilarious” —New York Times Book Review“Nopca’s stories, written with clarity and flair, are smart and modern, filled with sharply observed detail. They capture the unease of the times and the flux of contempor...
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In the shadow of king saul
A lyrical autobiography in essays from a celebrated author, honoring outlier artists and other heroes and villains who inspired himIn the New York Review of Books, Joyce Carol Oates expressed her admiration for an equally prolific contemporary: “Among Charyn’s writerly gifts is a dazzling energy....
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Feast day of the cannibals
A bankrupt merchant encounters Herman Melville and is pursued through the depths of Gilded Age Manhattan by a brutal antagonistIn the sixth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, Shelby Ross, a merchant ruined by the depression of 1873–79, is hired as a New York City Custom House apprais...
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Her here
An atmospheric debut novel about one lost young woman’s search for another“Spellbinding. . . . Wholly engrossing.” —Washington PostElena, struggling with memory loss due to a trauma that has unmoored her sense of self, deserts graduate school and a long-term relationship to accept a bizarre propo...
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A mathematician's lament
A brilliant mathematician’s manifesto for freeing math from the drudgery of traditional teaching
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Bob stevenson
A psychiatrist falls for a charismatic patient and must unravel the mystery of his identity
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Love among the particles
A dark and marvelous journey from the Industrial Age through Hollywood’s Golden Age, into the Digital Age and beyond.
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Written in stone
The epic quest for missing links and other myths about evolution.
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The wreckage of eden
A nineteenth-century army chaplain confesses his loss of faith in God and country to his first love, poet Emily DickinsonWhen U.S. Army chaplain Robert Winter first meets Emily Dickinson, he is fascinated by the brilliance of the strange girl immersed in her botany lessons. She will become his co...
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American follies
A young woman joins Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Barnum’s circus to rescue her infant from the KKKIn the seventh stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Ellen Finch, former stenographer to Henry James, recalls her time as an assistant to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cad...
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Starlight detectives
A wondrous tale of cosmic exploration and the colorful characters who ushered astronomy into the modern age
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Palmerino
A richly atmospheric, supernaturally shaded novel based on the true story of a brilliant Victorian-era writer and intellectual
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Widow
Stories from a master of the genre that exquisitely distill emotions from the hilarious to the erotic to the tragic.
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The topography of tears
Marvelous landscapes of human experience and emotion rendered through the magnification of our tears
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The polish boxer
The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon begins as he searches for information about his Polish grandfather’s imprisonment at AuschwitzNew York Times Editors’ Choice * International Latino Book Award FinalistThe Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for or...
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A road unforeseen
A secular feminist army courageously challenges the Islamic StateIn war-torn northern Syria, a democratic society—based on secularism, ethnic inclusiveness, and gender equality—has won significant victories against the Islamic State, or Daesh, with women on the front lines as fierce warriors and ...
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Love like water, love like fire
Comedy and tragedy collide in stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience“We can’t stop turning the pages of this book.” —Ilya Kaminsky, New York Times Book ReviewFrom the moment of its founding, the USSR was reviled and admired, demonized and idealize...
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A proper knowledge
A novel of autism and obsession by a winner of the Commonwealth Gold Medal for Fiction.
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