New and Acclaimed Literary Works

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My Sister, the Serial Killer

A Novel

by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Now in Paperback

Booker Prize Longlist and Women’s Prize for Fiction Finalist

“Scorpion-tailed little thriller [with] a sting you will remember.” —The New York Times

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The Silence of the Girls

A Novel

by Pat Barker

Now in Paperback

Women’s Prize for Fiction and Costa Novel Award Finalist

A Best Book of the Year The Washington Post, NPR, The Economist, Financial Times

“Barker sings the rage of Briseis, captive queen . . . in her ercely feminist retelling of the Iliad.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

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The Life of Saul Bellow, Volume 2

Love and Strife, 1965-2005

by Zachary Leader

Now in Paperback

“A superb biography. . . . Judicious. . . . Provocative. . . . Brilliantly calibrated.” —The New York Times Book Review

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Think, Write, Speak

Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor

by Vladimir Nabokov

New in Paperback

A rich compilation of previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy.

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The Little Blue Kite

by Mark Z. Danielewski

New in Hardcover

From the bestselling author of House of Leaves comes a whimsical parable for adults and children alike.

“The literary world is stronger for having boundary pushers like Danielewski.” —The A.V. Club

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Rusty Brown

by Chris Ware

New in Hardcover

Chris Ware’s Rusty Brown is a major graphic novel event––more than eighteen years in the making.

“Feverishly inventive and intimately told, drawn with empathy, architectural rigor and a spooky sense of a divine eye.” —The New York Times Book Review

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