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"This oracular first novel, which unfurls like gossamer [has] characters of a depth seldom found in a debut."--"The New Yorker." In this "impressive, ... More

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When Henry Roth published "Call It Sleep," his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books ... More

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Barry Schwartz has everything: a strong marriage, a life in the Colorado mountains, and a job that lets him ski a hundred days in a good year. But at ... More

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From the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Ironweed and Legs, Roscoe is a comic journey into the dark heart of America's postwar Democratic dream.; It ... More

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Two classics in one volume: "Bartleby," a disturbing moral allegory set in 19th-century New York, and "Benito Cereno," a gripping sea adventure that ... More

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A modernist masterwork that has more in common with films than traditional novels, John Dos Passos' "Manhattan Transfer" includes an introduction by ... More

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It begins with an envelope. Twenty years old, maybe more, with the dust of the dead-letter office still clinging to the stained, fraying paper. It ... More

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A diplomat is gunned down in midtown Manhattan. A girl is raped and thrown out a tenement window in Alphabet City. A mafia muscleman is running rings ... More

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The letters are carved into the foreheads of dead bodies found on the streets of the fashionable Upper East Side of Manhattan. The police are baffled ... More

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The bestselling author of "Dragonfly" returns with a chilling, multi-layered psychological thriller. When Dane Colman's sister vanishes, he vows to ... More

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The late Billy Lynch's family and friends gather at a small bar and grill in the Bronx to remember better times. His widow, Maeve, is there and ... More

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Hart Crane's first novel is the tale of a pretty young slum girl driven to brutal excesses by poverty and loneliness. It was considered so sexually ... More

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Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a "registrar of ... More

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Puerto Rican Miguel leads a crazy high life in his poor Bronx neighbourhood. Reaping the rewards of apprenticeship to kinpin crack-dealer Spider, ... More

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Available in trade paperback for the first time, here is the brilliant story of Esther the White, a Russian emigre who chooses to live cut off from ... More

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As this novel follows the course of these men's lives, women and work - Marshall moves to Hollywood and becomes a screenwriter, while Orno follows a ... More

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All Mamie Mason ever wanted was to be "the hostess with the mostest" and inspire a lot of inter-racial loving at her famous parties in Harlem. A ... More

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New York in the 1880s is caught up in the spiritualist frenzy, and there is no medium more revered than Countess Lavaenya, a.k.a. Lavinia Murphy, who ... More

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Reporter Kay Engels gets the scoop of a lifetime when her close friend, an archaeologist, uncovers the remains of a 17th-century tavern buried under ... More

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In a captivating coming-of-age story set against the social, racial, and political upheavals of the 1960s, this debut novel introduces one of the ... More

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This domestic novel set in Brooklyn in the 1940s describes the experiences of Daniel and Richard Adler, two brothers who survive a brutal upbringing ... More

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The first social expos? in fiction to render "how the other half lives," Stephen Crane's Maggie is one of the most powerful depictions of the urban ... More

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