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  • Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

    Jim Holt

    Paperback

    The Washington Post Notable Non-Fiction of 2013

    “I can imagine few more enjoyable ways of thinking than to read this book.”—Sarah Bakewell, New York Times Book Review, front-page review

  • The Bridge Over the Neroch: And Other Works

    Leonid Tsypkin, Jamey Gambrell

    Paperback

    From the acclaimed author of Summer in Baden-Baden, a collection of short work finally in English.

  • Exercises in Style

    Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright

    Paperback

    A new edition of a French modernist classic - a Parisian scene told ninety-nine different ways - with new material written in homage by the likes of Jonathan Lethem, Rivka Galchen, and many more.

  • Waltzing the Cat

    Pam Houston

    Paperback

    "Self-assured and self-revealing, Waltzing the Cat will gratify Pam Houston’s many admirers, and it will lure plenty of new readers into her wild rivers" —Portland Oregonian

  • Contents May Have Shifted: A Novel

    Pam Houston

    Paperback

    “An absorbing, generous, ravishing book by a high priestess of you-have-to-read-this prose." —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild