The wretched of the earth

“This century’s most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism.”—Angela DavisThe sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon’s landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel WestFirst published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction ...

Mexico

A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2025From acclaimed and prize-winning historian Paul Gillingham, a rich and vibrant history of one of the world’s most diverse, politically ground-breaking, and influential of countriesAt the beginning of his masterful work of scholarship and narration, Pa...

Small things like these (oprah's book club)

**OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2024****NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK 2024**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHYA New York Times Bestseller • Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize • Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political FictionOne of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Centu...

Pedro páramo

Now an original Netflix film, directed by Rodrigo Prieto, cinematographer of Killers of the Flower Moon NATIONAL BESTSELLER "One of the best novels in Hispanic literature, and in literature as a whole.” —Jorge Luis Borges The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, now pub...

Pathetic literature

An utterly unique collection composed by the award-winning poet and writer, a global anthology of pieces from lesser-known classics by luminaries like Franz Kafka, Samuel R. Delany, and Gwendolyn Brooks to up-and-coming writers that examine pathos and feeling, giving a well-timed rehab to the wor...

Waiting for godot

Now coming to Broadway, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter and directed by Tony and Olivier Award-winner Jamie Lloyd, Samuel Beckett's indelible masterpiece, an unwavering testament to what it means to be humanFrom an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, fo...

Black skin, white masks

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon’s masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of reade...

Last night a dj saved my life

Freshly revised and chock-full of new, vibrant stories, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is the “lively and . . . necessary” (New York Times Book Review), and first and foremost definitive history of the musical outlaws who revolutionized the music industry: the disc jockeysTwenty-five years since i...

The true true story of raja the gullible (and his mother)

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD“Alameddine is a writer with a boundless imagination.”—NPRFrom the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction comes a tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his motherIn a tiny Beirut ap...

Convenience store woman

The English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, Convenience Store Woman is a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan through the eyes of a single woman who fits in to the rigidity of its work culture only too well

Endgame and act without words

How africa works

“[O]ne of the most original and important books on Africa in years.”—Financial Times“Challenges outdated narratives and makes a compelling case for the continent's economic potential.”—Bill GatesThe acclaimed author of How Asia Works brings his “pithy, well-written and intellectually vigorous” (F...

The great resistance

For more than four centuries, enslaved people across the Americas, from the United States and the Caribbean to Brazil, fought any way they could to gain their freedom. For the first time, their dramatic stories are gathered in one sweeping narrative that offers a message of inspiration in our own...

Waiting for lefty and other plays

Tolstoy

Forensics

The internally bestselling author of the Karen Pirie series "offers fascinating glimpses" (Boston Globe) into the real world of criminal forensics from its beginnings to the modern day.The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, ...

H is for hawk

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Claire Foy and Brendan GleesonOne of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyOne of Kirkus Reviews’s Best Books of the 21st CenturyOne of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearOne of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Las...

The labyrinth of solitude

Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture.Compared to Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses for its tr...

The birthday party and the room

In The Birthday Party, a musician who escapes to a dilapidated boarding house becomes the victim of a ritual murder in which everyone- assassins, victim, and observers- implacably plays out the role assigned him by fate.The Room, a derelict boarding house again becomes the scene of a visitation o...

A god-shaped nation

A kaleidoscopic history that shows how the quest to worship freely became one of the nation’s most vexing tensions, shaping life for believers and nonbelievers alike Ever since conquistadores claimed Taino land in the name of their Catholic God and New England Puritans formed their strictly Prot...

Frighten the horses

An Oprah Daily Best Book of FallA CLMP Firecracker Award FinalistA textured, sharply written memoir about coming of age in the fourth decade of one’s life and embracing one's truest self in a world that demands gender fit in neat boxesFrom the outside, Oliver Radclyffe spent four decades living a...

How to think like a woman

From a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential 17th and 18th century feminist philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft and her predecessors who have been written out of history, and a searing look at the author’s experience of patriarchy and sexism in a...

Oranges are not the only fruit

“To read Jeanette Winterson is to love her.”—O, the Oprah MagazineThe 40th anniversary edition of a beloved modern classic and pioneering work of autofiction—a funny, poignant exploration of a young girl’s quirky passage into adulthoodWith a new introduction and afterword by the authorJeanette Wi...

The palm-wine drinkard

Amos Tutuola’s masterful first novel of a nightmarish quest into the land of the dead, now available in a standalone volume with an introduction by Wole SoyinkaWidely considered to be his masterpiece, Amos Tutuola’s debut novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard was first published in 1952. Named one of TIME...

Land between the rivers

The epic, five millennia history of the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that was the birthplace of civilization and remains today the essential crossroads between East and WestAt the start of the fourth millennium BC, at the edge of historical time, civilization first arrived with ...

Call me ishmaelle

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Pick“Well worth your time . . . By adding in new characters while adhering to the original story, the author creates something new, strange and thrilling.”—Los Angeles Times“An astonishingly ambitious undertaking . . . you’re in the hands of a genuine storyte...

The devil's best trick

Part true crime story, part religious and literary history, an investigation into the nature of evil and the figure of the Devil by acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan Throughout history, humans have struggled to explain the evils of the world and the darkest parts of ourselves. The Devil’s Bes...

Bloodbath nation

An intimate and powerful rumination on American gun violence by Paul Auster, one of our greatest living writers and “genuine American original” (The Boston Globe), in an unforgettable collaboration with photographer Spencer Ostrander Like most American boys of his generation, Paul Auster grew up ...

Medusa of the roses

A CLMP Firecracker Award FinalistSex, vengeance, and betrayal in modern day Tehran—Navid Sinaki’s bold and cinematic debut is a queer literary noir following Anjir, a morbid romantic and petty thief whose boyfriend disappears just as they’re planning to leave their hometown for goodAnjir and Zal ...

One aladdin two lamps

"Enchanting, unexpected and razor-sharp. Jeanette Winterson and Shahrazad are the perfect co-pilots to take us into new worlds on the wings of old stories."—Kamila Shamsie, award-winning author of Home FireI can change the story because I am the story.“One of the most daring and inventive writers...

Prophet song

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 • INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace PrizeFinalist for the 2024 Kirkus PrizeShortlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary AwardOne of The Irish Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century"A prophetic masterpiece." — Ron Charles, Washingto...

How the west stole democracy from the arabs

The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy—and how the West crushed it  When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of...

The story of a goat

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE From one of India’s best-known writers and the author of the National Book Award-longlisted One Part Woman comes a charming and surprising tale of an orphaned goat and the family that decides to take care of her, despite the potent...

Winter

“What raises Deighton's genre to art is not only his absorbing characters but his metaphoric grace, droll wit, command of technical detail . . . and sure sense of place.”—Washington PostPeter and Paul Winter, sons of a German businessman, are bonded by childhood trauma. When they grow apart, only...

Orbital

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 • A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**New York Times Book Review Book Club Pick****Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show Book Club Pick**Winner of the 2024 Hawthornden Prize Shortlisted for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political FictionShortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Pr...

The possessed

From “a master of verbal burlesque [and] a connoisseur of psychological blackmail” (John Updike), Witold Gombrowicz’s harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now in a new, authoritative English translation Witold Gombrowicz is considered by many to be Poland’s greatest modernist, ...

Foster

An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the USIt is a hot summer in rur...

Homesickness

The second book from the “exact and poetic” (New York Times) author of critical smash Young Skins, winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35, Homesickness  is an emotionally resonant and wonderfully wry collection that follows the lives of outcasts,...

Architects of an american landscape

A dual portrait of America’s first great architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, and her finest landscape designer, Frederick Law Olmsted—and their immense impact on AmericaAs the nation recovered from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly influenced how Americans came to interact with t...

12 bytes

Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson"Talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy," said Dwight Garner in the New York Times about ...

Sightseeing

Toward the african revolution

Blood and guts in high school

The novel that made a cult icon of Kathy Acker, whose work is “like reading William S. Burroughs while watching an avant-garde theater group perform to the sounds of a punk band” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)

Acid dreams

In Acid Dreams, Martin Lee and Bruce Shalin have written the history of a time still only dimly understood. The events they recount and the facts they uncover supply an important missing piece of the puzzle of a crucial decade in our recent past.Few events have had a more profound impact on the s...

The coast of utopia

The wire

History of wolves

Finalist for the Man Booker AwardFinalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut FictionWinner of the GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction.One of theNew York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017; An NPR and MPR Best Books of 2017; #1 Indie Next Pick; A New York Times Editors’ Choice; A Barnes &a...

My dinner with andre

"My Dinner with Andre" is a passionate, volatile, and humorous encounter between two friends who have not seen each other for a long time, and decide to catch up on each others' lives over dinner.Andre Gregory is an intense, highly experimental theater director and playwright in search of life's ...

The complete plays

This volume contains every play written by Joe Orton, who emerged in the 1960s as the most talented comic playwright in recent English history and was considered the direct successor to Wilde, Shaw, and Coward.