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  • Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker

    Susan Howe

    Paperback

    Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", Sorting Facts is Susan Howe’s masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills...

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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