Turn up the heat (and the spice) in this best-friend's-brother romance and try to stifle your sighs reading this one in public. The kitchen has never been hotter. This old flame just might set them on fire. Conceited, unattainable, and downright...

A Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2024. The first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks. We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How did they...

In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso's Ardor brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the modern world.In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom The Paris Review has called "a literary institution," explores the ancient texts...

The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with...

A book that begins before Adam and ends after us. In this magisterial work by the Italian intellectual superstar Roberto Calasso, figures of the Bible and its whole outline emerge in a new light: one that is often astonishing and disquieting, as...

In "the very best book about Hindu mythology that anyone has ever written" (The New Republic) Calasso plunges Western readers into the mind of ancient India. He begins with a mystery: Why is the most important god in the Rg Veda, the oldest of...

THE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY is a book without any modern parallel. Forming an active link in a chain that reaches back through Ovid's METAMORPHOSES directly to Homer, Roberto Calasso's re-exploration of the fantastic fables and mysteries we may...

Roberto Calasso, “a literary institution of one” (The Paris Review), tells the story of the eternal life of Utnapishtim, the savior of man, in the eleventh part of his great literary project. A long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans,...

An interior look at Roberto Calasso's work as a publisher and his reflections on the art of book publishing.In this illuminating volume, Roberto Calasso reflects on more than half a century of distinguished literary publishing at Adelphi Edizioni in...

Adrift in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, a man who ferries fugitives by day gets twisted up in a plot to pilfer diamonds in this Casablanca-infused heist novel.Jack might be a polished, Harvard-educated lawyer on paper, but everyone in the...

“Catherine Newman sees the heartbreak and comedy of life with wisdom and unflinching compassion. The way she finds the extraordinary in the everyday is nothing short of poetry. She’s a writer’s writer—and a human’s human...

The New York Times bestselling classic of a young woman’s journey in work, love, and life. “In this swinging, funny, and tender study of contemporary relationships, Bank refutes once and for all the popular notions of neurotic...

A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy retreat center into the hot new self-care brand in this “wryly funny [and] fabulous debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review).“A...

Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the British Science Fiction Association award for best novel, and the Kitschies Red Tentacle. Marine biologist Hana Ishikawa is racing against time to save the coral of the Great Barrier Reef, but struggles to...

Teju Cole is back with his first major novel since Open City. Another brilliant work of autofiction, Tremorreckons with the passing of time, survival, and how stories make up the fabric of our lives.An “extraordinary, ambitious” (The Times)...

Populated by characters full of humanity, this is the story of one family over years of coming together and falling apart. At times devastating, it never loses its optimism. "Jandy Nelson is a true virtuoso . . . I am fervently in love with this brave,...

“A must-read for booklovers.” —Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of Next Year in Havana.A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of books that bring them together, by the...

A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in this juicy, thrilling novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Such Sharp Teeth and Black Sheep.Sloane Parker is dreading her birthday. She...

The ultimate Elizabeth Strout story: Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge teaching us about ourselves, one page at a time.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout...

Get ready for the epic conclusion every reader of Divine Rivals has been waiting for. An unforgettable story of love and betrayal, Ruthless Vows brings Iris and Roman closer together as they face impossible choices.The epic conclusion to the intensely...