A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionA history with sweeping implications, American Messiahs challenges our previous misconceptions about “cult” leaders and their messianic power.Mania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent anticapitalist Cyrus Teed, to the dapper and overlooked civil rights pioneer Father Div...

Bird follows Carson, a young, cerebral Aboriginal man who traverses his way in and out of the prison system in Western Australia. The story is told through the multiple white characters Carson encounters along his journey. The novel is similar stylistically and thematically to Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting or some of the early writings of John Dos Passes, painting a picture of a modern world which is simultaneously bleak, comic and harrowing.

Hilda Hilst (1930–2004) was one of the greatest Brazilian writers of the twentieth century, but her books have languished untranslated, in part because of their formally radical nature. This translation of With My Dog-Eyes brings a crucial work from her oeuvre into English for the first time.With My Dog-Eyes is an account of an unraveling—of sanity, of language . . .After experiencing a vision of what he calls “a clear-cut unhoped-for,” co...

A sardonic Peruvian writer is thrust into a bizarre world of literary rivalries, erotic distractions, and mysterious traces of violence at a prestigious European award ceremony in this hypnotic and scabrous portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite.Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough exterior. She pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity when she learns that she is treasured at her university for t...

A brilliant, magisterial novel of family secrets simmering beneath the surfaceBenjamin, on the verge of becoming a father, discovers a tragic family secret involving patrimony and determines to get to the root of. Those most immediately involved are all dead, but their three closest confidantes are still alive—Isabel, his grandmother; Haroldo, his grandfather’s friend; and Raul, his father’s friend—and each will tell him a different version of the facts.By ...

The English-language debut of a master stylist: a compassionate but relentless novel about the long, dark harvest of Brazil’s totalitarian ruleA professor prepares to retire—Gustavo is set to move from São Paulo to the countryside, but it isn’t the urban violence he’s fleeing: what he fears most is the violence of his memory. But as he sorts out his papers, the ghosts arrive in full force. He was arrested in 1970 with his brother-in-law Armando: both were vicarious...

This book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English. It brings together a variety of perspectives on one of Latin America’s most inventive and innovative authors. Nine essays by scholars and translators reflect about various aspects of her work, placing it in the context of Brazil and world literature. During her lifetime, Hilst won several major national literary awards and attracted legions of devoted readers. Her writing spanned styles an...

Benjamim, a young man on the cusp of fatherhood, discovers a disturbing family secret: before his father was born, his paternal grandfather had a child with Benjamim's mother. With both men dead, Benjamim turns to three of their confidantes to piece together his family history: Haroldo, his grandfather's best friend; Isabel, his grandmother; and Raul, a friend from his father's youth.Through their conflicting testimonies, full of blind spots and contradictions, Benjamim will gradua...

When an unemployed poet finds himself thrown in jail after raping his neighbor, his time in the slammer is mysteriously cut short when he’s abruptly taken to a new home - a countryside manor where his every need seen to. All that’s required of him is to . . . write poetry. Just who are his captors, Kurt and Otávio? What of the alluring maid, Amália, and her charge, a woman with cancer named Gerda? And, most alarmingly of all, why does Kurt suddenly appear to be aging so much faster than he...

Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity—a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings—she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity.When she is nominated for "the most important literary award in Europe," Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral...

Just who is the narrator of João Gilberto Noll’s dark and mysterious Atlantic Hotel? First he books a room where a murder has just occurred, claiming he's just arrived from the airport. But then he suddenly leaves the hotel, telling a cab driver he’s an alcoholic headed for detox. After that he hops on an all-night bus headed across Brazil, where he begins to seduce a beautiful American woman. Next he says he’s a soap opera actor, which is a bad idea-it makes the people he’s hitch...

Harlequin Historical – June 2026 – Box Set 1 of 2Harlequin ® Historical brings you a captivating trio of thrilling new romances in one collection!This boxset includes:TEMPTING RUIN WITH THE DUKEPart of Society’s Most Wanted DukesBy Millie Adams(Regency)Unconventional Lady Phoebe Aubrey craves adventure beyond the ballroom. With her dreaded first Season looming, she hides herself away aboard the shi...