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See What Can Be Done
Essays, Criticism, and Commentary
by Lorrie Moore
Now in Paperback
“The kind of book, and the kind of human, you’d want to guide you through the past few decades in letters and culture. . . . Moore is one of our best documentarians of everyday amazement.” —The NewYorker
The Only Story
A Novel
by Julian Barnes
Now in Paperback
“Brilliant. . . . [Holds] a commitment not only to great storytelling but also to exploring how stories are told.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Same Same
A Novel
by Peter Mendelsund
New in Paperback
The fiction debut from the Los Angeles Times bestselling author of What We See When We Read
“A deeply inventive and wonderfully strange novel.”
—Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation
The Source of Self-Regard
Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
by Toni Morrison
New in Hardcover
A new nonfiction collection from Toni Morrison, one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time
“Prescient and highly relevant to the present political moment.” —Publishers Weekly
“Powerful, highly compelling pieces from one of our greatest writers.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A Long Way from Home
by Peter Carey
Now in Paperback
“Delightful. . . . Thrilling. . . . One of Carey’s best, and boldest, efforts yet.” —The Boston Globe
The Rub of Time
Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017
by Martin Amis
Now in Paperback
“The product of a ferocious yet sensitive mind. . . . Amis’s book is like hurtling down a black-diamond ski run.” —The New York Times
The Sparsholt Affair
by Alan Hollinghurst
Now in Paperback
“Beautiful and complex. . . . Hollinghurst achieves [a] kind of symphonic effect.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Undeniably the work of a master.” —Chicago Tribune
A New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, NPR, and Slate Best Book of the Year
First Person
by Richard Flanagan
Now in Paperback
“A tour de force. . . . First Person is a kind of twenty-fiirst-century Picture of Dorian Gray. . . . Epiphanies and aphorisms abound: gem-like remarks [and] unexpected insights.” —Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books