A political and legal thriller about money and power—featuring mind-altering substances, shadowy power players, and EU politics—by the author of Remainder and Satin Island.
Benjamin Stanton embodies both the promise and the peril of the twenty-first century. A brilliant legal theorist working behind...
“Morel’s Invention may be described, without exaggeration, as a perfect novel.” —Octavio Paz
A new translation of Adolfo Bioy Casares’s metaphysical masterpiece, a marvelously plotted story of a fugitive writer who discovers an uncanny phenomenon taking place on his island hideout.
Jorge Luis Borges...
A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most distinctive, accomplished novelists of the last century.
The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a...
On November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress approved a resolution for the organization of the Corps, creating what would become the Marines, a heroic group of men and women who put their lives on the line in far-flung places around the globe.
Here are ten unforgettable stories on the courage of...
A timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy.
Since her untimely death in 1973, Ingeborg Bachmann has come to be regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most important writers. Unpacking a single Bachmann poem, novelist Tom McCarthy latches...
A Marine sniper once remarked, “Everybody hates snipers until they go into combat.”
In The Greatest Sniper Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has compiled a wide-ranging collection that will take readers to:
The bloody front lines of the American Civil War, with the best marksmen from Vermont, who...
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J. G. Ballard's collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.
J. G. Ballard was a colossal figure in English literature and an imaginative force of the twentieth century. Alongside seminal novels...
There is nothing more American than playing football or cheering for favorite teams. Millions watch each fall with intense interest as high school, college, and professional players hit the field. And there is nothing more entertaining than reading about the game, its colorful players and coaches...
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A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it.
Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can’t quite place.
How he goes about bringing his visions to life–and what happens...
Here are stunning long-buried stories that give proof to the words Admiral Chester Nimitz used to describe the hero Marines on Iwo Jima: “Uncommon valor was a common virtue.”
Painstakingly selected from the most moving battle accounts about American heroism and breathtaking courage during the...