**WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZEA letter from a German soldier to his grandson recounts the terrors of war on the Eastern Front, and a postwar ordinary life in search of atonement, in this “raw, visceral, and propulsive” novel (New York Times Book Review).**A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceIn the throes of the Second World War, young Meissner, a college student with dreams of ...

Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year—the first work of fiction to grace the list in fifteen years—a sweeping social novel about an unlikely friendship between two men and a plan that could change the world, unfolding over the first two decades of the 21st centuryJames and Roland’s paths through life—one drawn in straight lines, the other looping and uncertain—began to cross...James Drayton has always f...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice“A big, bustling novel about love, friendship, money, ambition and the 21st century, packed with humor and intelligent observations . . . I finished it tear-stained.”—Sunday Times (UK)Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year—the first work of fiction to grace the list in fifteen years—a sweeping social novel about an unlikely fri...

**WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZEA letter from a German soldier to his grandson recounts the terrors of war on the Eastern Front, and a postwar ordinary life in search of atonement, in this “raw, visceral, and propulsive” novel (New York Times Book Review).**A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceIn the throes of the Second World War, young Meissner, a college student with dreams of ...

Jeremy Underwood is a long-suffering subeditor on The Daily Beast, Britain's mightiest tabloid. Returning from holiday, he notices two burqa-clad figures lurking outside the paper's Kensington offices. Two male terrorism suspects have escaped from a mosque disguised as women; recently suspicion and fear have made everyone alert. Jeremy's casual observation sets off a chain of events that spins out of control, as the great Beast feels that it is the next target of terrorism.

**In Zweig's classic novella, an epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of Nazi persecution, madness, and obsession.“Perhaps the best chess story ever written.” —Economist**A Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the final work completed by the bestselling author of his day. Sent off to his publisher just days before his suicide in 1942, A Chess Story is also the only work where Zweig engages directly with Nazi...

New translations of the best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writersKafka, whose name has generated an adjective, is one of the best loved writers of the twentieth century. Known for his dark, enigmatic stories, for the absurd nightmares he depicts, his extraordinary imaginative depth is clear in stories from 'A Hunger Artist' to 'The Verdict'.But Kafka also wrote fizzingly funny, fresh stories, and The Unhappi...

A casual introduction, a challenge to a simple game of chess, a lovers' reunion, a meaningless infidelity: from such small seeds Zweig brings forth five startlingly tense tales--meditations on the fragility of love, the limits of obsession, the combustibility of secrets and betrayal.To read anything by Zweig is to risk addiction; in this collection the power of his writing--which, with its unabashed intensity and narrative drive, made him one of the bestselling and most acclaimed a...

The 2015 Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks heralded the beginning of a new wave of terrorism―one rooted in the ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq that shows the possibility of foreign attackers working with citizens of the country. As ISIS seeks to expand its reach in the Middle East, its territory serves as a training and operations base for a new generation of jihadis. Young people from the West, primarily from Europe, have traveled to join the terror organization, reemerging as...

**A new film starrring Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee and directed by Kent Jones is based on Schnitzler's novella.A hilarious takedown of celebrity and false genius, never before available in the US.**An NYRB Classics OriginalEduard Saxberger is a quiet man who is getting on in years and has spent the better part of them working at a desk in an office. Once upon a time, however, he published a book of poetry, Wanderings, and one day when he returns from his usu...

THE BASIS FOR SILO, NOW A #1 STREAMING SHOW ON APPLE TV“One of dystopian fiction’s masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World." — Daily ExpressThe first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of mankind clawing for survival. The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underg...

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World ...