Literary / English literature

Rembrandt's Hat

by Bernard Malamud

This collection of short stories by Bernard Malamud includes: The Silver CrownMan in the DrawerThe LetterIn RetirementRembrandt's HatNotes from a Lady at a Dinner PartyMy Son the MurdererTalking Horse

The Stories of Bernard Malamud

by Bernard Malamud

Compassionate and profound in their wry humor, this collection of stories captures the poetry of human relationships at the point where reality and imagination meet.

Idiots First

by Bernard Malamud

This collection of short stories by Bernard Malamud includes: Idiots FirstBlack Is My Favorite ColorStill LifeThe Death of MeA Choice of ProfessionLife Is Better Than DeathThe JewbirdNaked NudeThe Cost of LivingThe...

Dogwood Afternoons

by Kim Chapin

Dogwood Afternoons is the story of Andrew Mavis, a young race-car driver.  Mavis is testing his car on a new superspeedway, running practice laps against his boyhood friend and rival, Wynn Tatum, as they vie...

Tide Running

by Oonya Kempadoo

A striking and sensuous novel set in the contemporary Caribbean, by one of fiction's bright new stars

On the island of Tobago, Cliff, a young man from the poor town of Plymouth, watches the arrival of a foreign...

Layover

by Lisa Zeidner

“Subtle, astute . . . With Layover, Zeidner joins the ranks of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood and Fay Weldon.” —Karen Karbo, The New York Times Book Review

Claire Newbold has watched her life collapse:...

Wounded

by Percival Everett

Time Out Chicago, Top 10 Book of 2005

Winner of the 2006 PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction Training horses is dangerous—a head-to-head confrontation with 1,000 pounds of muscle and little sense takes courage,...

An Obedient Father

Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award 2001

by Akhil Sharma

Corrosive, funny, and frightening--one of the year's most absorbing first novels

"My general incompetence and laziness at work had been apparent for so long that I now think it was arrogant of Mr. Gupta to pick...

Take a Good Look

by Tor Seidler

After an insightful remark from his brother, Paul Motley begins screenwriting after a move to Manhatten. There, he meets an attractive and childish actress and waitress. After taking a job at the same restaurant...

Honeymooners

by Chuck Kinder

Two outlaws of love (and literature) at large in their own Wild West. Ralph Crawford may be a talented short-story writer -- one of the best in the Bay Area, in America, in the 1970s; hell, in the whole English-speaking,...

White Guys

by Anthony Giardina

After graduating from high school, in the early 1970s, Billy Mogavero is the only one of a tight-knit group of five friends who didn't make it out of Winship, a hardscrabble town outside of Boston. Twenty years...

Where the Road Goes

by Joanne Greenberg

A masterful novel about the complicated ties that bind families together and the love that has the power to drive them apart.

Loot

by Nadine Gordimer

Masterly new fiction from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature

A startling new work: ten fictions, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world....

Flight of the Swan

by Rosario Ferre

The story of a prima ballerina and her acolyte, set in Puerto Rico in 1917.

Flight of the Swan is the compelling story of a world-famous Russian prima ballerina who finds herself stranded on a Caribbean island...

Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties

by Felicia Luna Lemus

Leticia Marisol Estrella Torrez, a university honors graduate, moves north to Los Angeles in an attempt to break from the traditional grandmother who raised her and from Weeping Woman, the Mexican folkloric...

Another World

by Pat Barker

Plagued by nightmarish memories of the trenches where he saw his brother die, Nick's grandfather Gordie lays dying as Nick struggles to keep the peace in his increasingly fractious home. As Nick's suburban family...

The Little Women

by Katharine Weber

A delightfully clever contemporary novel inspired by the Louisa May Alcott classic

In Katharine Weber's third novel, The Little Women, three adolescent sisters--Meg, Jo and Amy--are shocked when they discover...

Three Daughters

by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

An ebullient novel about family secrets and the triumph of sisterly love

Driven by a legacy of lies, the shame of their own imperfections, and impending chaos in each of their well-ordered married lives, the...

A World Away

by Stewart O'Nan

A major new novel by the award-winning author recently named by Granta as one of America's best young writers.Set at a remote beachfront cottage in the Hamptons one summer during the Second World War, A World...

Zoot-Suit Murders

by Thomas Sanchez

Like his lavishly praised novels Rabbit Boss and Mile Zero, Thomas Sanchez's Zoot-Suit Murders combines a tautly arched narrative with fiercely visual prose and a starkly revisionist view of the American melting...