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When her mother goes missing, a young woman uncovers the secrets beneath her protected community. The women asked: How are they safe? And Tamsen Nightingale said: In this red grove, no woman can be harmed. No violence may come upon her. No injury to her flesh from the flesh of another. --The Story of the Sisters, Welcoming Incantation The Red Grove is a special place, protected. Some say a spell was cast by the community's founder, Tamsen Nigh...

A book of poems that reckons with love in all its forms, by the priest and poet Spencer Reece--his first collection in ten years. . . . My old love, my love who gave me language that I love, when there are no words, there are only acts. Spencer Reece, a poet and an Episcopal priest, suffuses his poetry with tenderness, humanity, and a wonderous alchemy of beauty and sorrow. As the Nobel laureate Louise Glück wrote, "emanating from Spencer Reec...

A history of a family spanning centuries and continents--one that unfolds into a new portrait of America.The Bloods were one of America's first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers--geographic, political, intellectual, and spiritual--that would become the very core of the United States. John Kaag's American Bloods is the account of a remarkable American family, of its participation in the making of...

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If ever a book was necessary, it's this one." -Bill McKibben"Thoughtful and honest . . . Incisive . . . Klein moves her reader toward the truer grounds of solidarity in these times." -Judith ButlerWhat if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self-a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devot...

An astounding debut."-Adrienne Raphel, The New York Times Book ReviewA dazzling love story in poems about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undoneA woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: of being seduced by a throng of older women, of kissing a friend in a dorm-room closet. But the dreams are private, not real.One night, she...

A stunning, intimate collection by the late great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.. . . I think I sought wisdom(without resignation) in poemsand also a certain calm madness.I found, much later, a moment's joyand melancholy's dark contentment.In True Life, the Polish writer Adam Zagajewski, one of the world's most admired and beloved poets, turns his gaze to the past with piercing clarity and a tone of wry, lyrical melancholy. He captures the rhyth...

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour.Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. Passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are the alphabetical diaries.

A revelatory new biography of the writer-activist who inspired today's movements for racial liberationIn the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon's shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of power continue to shape radical movements across the world. In this searching biography, Adam Shatz tells the story of Fanon's stunning journey,...

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world.Judith Butler, the pioneering theorist whose iconic book Gender Trouble redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts one of the most pressing issues of our time. So-called gender ideology-and its supposed dangers-has provoked reactionary backlash across the world. Global networks spread the idea that gender is a ...

An inspiring picture book biography about Glenn Burke, the first professional baseball player to come out as gay, and the story of how he created the high five.As a rookie on the Los Angeles Dodgers, Glenn Burke could do it all-hit, throw, catch, score. As a teammate, he was the heart of the clubhouse and energized fellow players with his enthusiasm. It was this enthusiasm that led Burke to invent the high five one October day at Dodger Stadiu...

For fans of Casey McQuiston and Alice Oseman, a girl falls for her best friend's crush in Cupid's Revenge, a queer YA rom-com from Wibke Brueggemann that's equal parts hilarious and swoon-worthy.It was never Tilly's intention to fall in love, but Cupid will get you when you least expect it. That's exactly what happens when Tilly's best friend, Teddy, ropes Tilly into a plan to woo his dream girl, aspiring actress Katherine Cooper-Bunting. It t...

The magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers."Instead of a chronicle, a person tends to manufacture legends when he relates the story of his life for others, " Péter Nádas writes in his fiction masterpiece, Parallel Stories. Now, in his own memoir, the renowned author investigates what it might mean to reconstruct a life without recourse to the techniques and embellishments of traditional storytelling.Taking his firmly imbedded m...

Elisa Gonzalez's thrilling debut makes one "feel as if poems have never before been written" (Louise Glück). Night Trains, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it grapples with something more than an event: she writes of a whole life, to transcendent effect. By the end, we feel we have been witness to a poet remaking herself by writing.Gonzalez's poetry depicts the fullness of living. There are the...

A gripping middle-grade history that offers a fresh look at the groundbreaking 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by spotlighting the protest's radical roots and the long-ignored role of Black women organizers-includes a wealth of black and white photos from the time period throughout.Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs a...

From a beloved comedy critic, a wisecracking, heartfelt, and overdue chronicle of comedy's boom-and its magic.Comedy is king. From multimillion-dollar TV specials to sold-out stand-up shows and TikTok stardom, comedy has never been more popular, democratized, or influential. Comedians have become organizing forces across culture-as trusted as politicians and as fawned-over as celebrities-yet comedy as an art form has gone under-considered thro...

An inventive, acutely political, and deeply personal new collection by the celebrated author of 10:04 and The Topeka School.Ben Lerner's The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. These are poems at once alive to "the real forces at work in the popular" and "the wind in the poplars, " "the blue glow of the screen" and...

The first full biography of America's most renowned economist.Milton Friedman was, alongside John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the twentieth century. His work was instrumental in the turn toward free markets that defined the 1980s, and his full-throated defenses of capitalism and freedom resonated with audiences around the world. It's no wonder the last decades of the twentieth century have been called "the Age of Friedman...

Our favorite fish is on the soccer field!Mr. Fish is on a team, but his team does not win the game. All the fish are about to pout! But playing a game isn't always about who scores the most points-it's about having fun along the way! Turn little pouts into big smiles with this Beginning Reader about soccer, teamwork, and enjoying the moment featuring the characters from the New York Times-bestselling Pout-Pout Fish series by Deborah Diesen wit...

Based on the young lives of Grammy-nominated indie-pop twin-sister duo Tegan and Sara, who have sold well over a million records, with artwork from Eisner Award-winner Tillie Walden, this opening book of a middle-grade graphic novel duology explores growing up, coming out, and finding yourself through music and sisterhood. A prequel of sorts to their bestselling adult memoir High School, now an 8-episode Freevee television series! When growing...