Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

South to a Very Old Place

by Albert Murray

St. Clair

by Anthony Wallace

Tooth of Crime

by Sam Shepard

One of the plays that first announced Sam Shepard as an original voice in American theater, Tooth of Crime is his thrillingly innovative rock drama, published here in a revised edition that is as fresh and provocative...

Living with Jazz

by Dan Morgenstern

A collection of essays, biographical profiles, and critical analyses by one of the twentieth century's leading jazz writers includes commentary on the work of jazz entertainers, including Duke Ellington, Ella...

Wrong About Japan

by Peter Carey

When Peter Carey offered to take his son to Japan, 12-year-old Charley stipulated no temples or museums. He wanted to see manga, anime, and cool, weird stuff. His father said yes. Out of that bargain comes this...

Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero

by Brooks Haxton

The critically acclaimed poet and translator Brooks Haxton embraces life, from our naked beginnings to the first signs of middle age and beyond, in this inviting collection of poems. The book opens with the...

Lost Man's River

by Peter Matthiessen

In this darkly compelling drama of fathers and sons, land and rapacity, murder, honor, and revenge, an "extraordinarily accomplished writer" ("Philadelphia Inquirer") returns to the primeval landscape of the...

Caligula and Three Other Plays

by Albert Camus

Reading for the Plot

by Peter Brooks

Collected Poems

by Chinua Achebe

A collection of poetry spanning the full range of the African-born author's acclaimed career has been updated to include seven never-before-published works, as well as much of his early poetry that explores...

What You Call Winter

by Nalini Jones

Composed of interconnected stories that move within and around a small Catholic community in India, this debut collection heralds the arrival of a graceful, sparkling new voice.

Nine-year-old Marian Almeida covets...

Family and Friends

by Anita Brookner

The Prince

by Niccolo Machiavelli & Michael Ennis

Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power.  Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince...

Look at Me

by Anita Brookner

Forever Undecided

by Raymond M. Smullyan

Forever Undecided is the most challenging yet of Raymond Smullyan’s puzzle collections.  It is, at the same time, an introduction—ingenious, instructive, entertaining—to Gödel’s famous theorems.

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Criminals

by Margot Livesey

With dark poetry and domestic acuity, the author of Homework shows how families pull together, form themselves anew, and occasionally fly apart at the seams. Ranging from Scotland to America to Italy--and to...

Runes of the North

by Sigurd F Olson

The Archaeology of Knowledge

by Michel Foucault

The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials

by Telford Taylor

I Think of You

by Ahdaf Soueif

Ahdaf Soueif, the bestselling author of The Map of Love, writes poignantly and beautifully about love, and about finding one’s place in the world. Achingly lyrical, resonant and richly woven, and with a spark...