An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her own identity through a series of...

'The great French feminist writer we need to remember' Guardian'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introductionAn old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans...

They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were.It was a place for women. A remote farm tucked away in the Kent Downs. A safe space.When Iris - newly single and living at home with her mother - meets the mysterious and beguiling...

From Booker-longlisted Ibtisam Azem, a haunting odyssey where rest must be stolen at high price, and 'Palestine' is a honeyed defiance on the tongue. ‘Sleep thief is what the interrogator called me. I’ll never forget that. I would steal a few...

A comic thriller where, too many craft beers and one crappy punch later, a dutiful trip back home to family spirals into a baffling whirlwind of murder, pills and fraud.  After many peaceful years abroad, JP has returned home to Mexico to visit...

‘That the music may be polyphonic is no grounds for not listening,’ scribbles a man for his stone-deaf friend. In Is Beauty Good there are many such voices. People talk to various listeners, even to silent ones. They talk to...

Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Novel Noopiming is Anishinaabemowin for ‘in the bush.’ In it, Simpson and a cast of seven –...

We thought death was the end, turns out it’s just the prologue. RUE I died, briefly.Then I came back.Now I’m determined to make the most of every minute I have left.Only problem is I’ve been saddled with supervision.Kane Deveraux is...

From Alex Aster, the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Lightlark series, comes her first adult romantasy. Enter the world of Starside, where swords wield magic and power is not inherited...but claimed.

Set in the titular realm of magic and immortals, Starside opens the first adult romantasy series from the bestselling author of the Lightlark Saga, as fearless mortal Aris arrives at the kingdom vowing vengeance against the deity who killed...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR• USA TODAY BESTSELLERThe critically acclaimed author of the “crazily enjoyable” (The New York Times) Whalefall returns with an...

With a carefree outlook on life, Hiroto knows better than anyone that slowing down is sometimes the best way to move forward.At 29 years old, carefree Hiroto Ikuta doesn’t have a girlfriend, a full-time job, or a plan for the future—and he...

“Precociously aphoristic and coolly unsentimental . . . Like Fitzgerald but from a woman’s perspective . . . As if Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, and Oscar Wilde had collaborated to examine the war between the sexes in the post-Victorian...

BENEATH HER VENGEANCEI’ve been broken before, but this time, it’s different. He didn’t just betray me—he destroyed the new life I’d fought so hard to build and nearly killed someone I love dearly. Now, all I can think about...

The Inquiring Mind is a new contribution to "responsibilist" or character-based virtue-epistemology - an approach to epistemology in which intellectual character traits like open-mindedness, fair-mindedness, inquisitiveness, and intellectual courage,...

Winner of the ALTA National Translation Award in Prose A tribute not only to the tradition of women's writing on hearth and home but to the legacy of such boundary-breaking feminist writers as Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and Hélène...

A woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god. She is also abandoned by her lover, to whom she is in thrall. She tries repeatedly to make or receive phone calls with the beloved figures, without success...

A coming of age story that is a classic of gay literature, now in English for the first time An NYRB Classics OriginalErnesto is a classic of gay literature, a tender and complex tale of sexual awakening by one of Italy’s most admired poets...

Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city—and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. She will...

Seventeen years passed between the moment Robert M. Pirsig burst onto the literary scene with his successful debut "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," and the publication of "Lila." Fedro, the phantom alter-ego who haunted the narrator of "Zen,"...