LITERATURE

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author’s death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño’s last, unfinished, novel. Learn More

From the best-selling author of The Dress Lodger, comes a brilliant new novel about the secrets, lies, and fears that haunt several generations of one Appalachian family. Learn More

In a Tokyo suburb Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Learn More

With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story. Learn More

No Wave founder Lydia Lunchís first book, Paradoxia (Akashic Books, 2007), proved that her talent is as strong on the page as it is on the stage. Her literary talents are even more impressive and varied in this iconoclastic and uncompromising collection. Learn More

This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. Learn More

Zadie Smith's dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own. Learn More

The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of one of the most iconic novels of our time-now in a dazzling graphic package. Learn More

Smart, whimsical, and often scathing, the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut influenced a generation of American writers -- including Dave Eggers, author of this volume’s Foreword. In these previously unpublished gems, Vonnegut’s originality infuses a unique landscape of factories, trailers, and bars -- and characters who pit their dreams and fears against a cruel and sometimes comically indifferent world. Learn More