Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Born That Way

by William Wright

Gossip

by Patricia Meyer Spacks

Seeing is Believing

by E.X. Ferrars

Infidelity, blackmail, unrequited love, and sexual perversion are the dirty little secrets that come to light in the staid English village of Raneswood when an amateur actor is found murdered in his home.

Island Possessed

by Katherine Dunham

The Life of Kingsley Amis

by Zachary Leader

Here is the authorized, definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century literature, renowned for his blistering intelligence, savage wit and belligerent fierceness of opinion:...

The Jewish Writings

by Hannah Arendt

Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. When she was in her mid-twenties and still living in Germany, Arendt wrote...

Dropped from Heaven

by Sophie Judah

A marvelous fiction debut-a collection of richly told, deeply moving stories about everyday life within a community of Indian Jews as its ancient culture confronts the modern world.

In the mythical village of...

The Untouched Key

by Alice Miller

The Jewish Body

by Melvin Konner

A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from "muscle Jews" to nose jobs.

Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the "Jewish body," considering sex, circumcision,...

Dogfight, A Love Story

by Matt Burgess

What Jonathan Lethem did for Brooklyn, Matt Burgess does for Queens in this exuberant and brilliant debut novel about a young drug dealer having a very bad weekend.

Alfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a...

Blue Sky Dream

by David Beers

Sleeping Late on Judgment Day

by Jane Mayhall

"My heart is bursting with homage as I / head off to a hostile eternity," writes Jane Mayhall, now eighty-five, who wrote most of these poems in an urgent outpouring over the last few years. From the decades-outdated...

Reflections from the North Country

by Sigurd F Olson

Hard Line

by Ken Ellingwood

The Southwestern border is one of the most fascinating places in America, a region of rugged beauty and small communities that coexist across the international line. In the past decade, the area has also become...

The Order of Things

by Michel Foucault

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

by Mark Leyner

Mr. Wilson's War

by John Dos Passos

The Pregnant Widow

by Martin Amis

The year is 1970, and the youth of Europe are in the chaotic, ecstatic throes of the sexual revolution. Though blindly dedicated to the cause, its nubile foot soldiers have yet to realize this disturbing truth:...

Kepler

by John Banville

Doctor Copernicus

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1976

by John Banville