Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and Coke. To outsiders, these idyllic images represent the so-called easy life in Caribbean nations such as Trinidad and Tobago. For those who live there the reality is very different, and in Pleasantview: A Novel in Stories, Trinidadian lawyer-turned-writer Celeste Mohammed reveals a society where poverty and patriarchy savagely rule – […]
In Disability Pride, Dispatches From a Post-ADA World, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin explores how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Written without anger or pity, it’s a revealing account of an often misunderstood movement and identity, and an inclusive reexamination of society’s treatment of those it deems […]
From zombies to cannibals to death incarnate, this cross-genre anthology offers something for every monster lover. In Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories edited by Yamile Saied Méndez and Amparo Ortiz, bloodthirsty vampires are hunted by a quick-witted slayer; children are stolen from their beds by “el viejo de la bolsa” while […]
From New York Times bestselling author R.L. Stine, the master of horror for young readers, comes 10 new stories that are sure to leave you shivering. A boy who hates bugs starts to see them everywhere. A basketball player’s skin starts to almost drip off his hands – but no one else can see it. […]
Fernando Butazzoni, narrador, ensayista, periodista, guionista cinematográfico y dramaturgo uruguayo, presenta Las cenizas del Cóndor, novela inspirada en acontecimientos reales ocurridos en Uruguay, Chile y Argentina durante las dictaduras militares. Conversa con el autor Julián Ubiría, director editorial de Penguin Random House Uruguay.
The National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In addition, the National Poetry Series has partnered with Miami Book Fair to award the Paz Prize in Poetry, which ensures bilingual publication for a book […]
Dana Levin’s Now Do You Know Where You Are investigates how great change calls the soul out of the old lyric, working in a variety of forms, calling on beloveds and ancestors, great thinkers and religions – convened by her own spun-of-light wisdom and intellectual hospitality. In Midwood: Poems, Jana Prikryl probes the notion of midlife, […]
Robert Jones Jr.’s The Prophets – his debut novel – tells the story of Samuel and Isaiah, slaves whose love creates a refuge in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man, a fellow slave, seeks to gain favor by preaching the master’s gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on […]
In I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir, Tony Award-winning author Harvey Fierstein's candid recollections of his life provide a rich window into downtown New York City life, the gay rights movements of the 1970s, the tumultuous AIDS crisis of the '80s, the evolution of theater, and his family's journey of acceptance. It turns out […]
After three books, Anthony Horowitz, the central character in Anthony Horowitz’s The Twist of a Knife: A Novel splits from ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne. He has a new play opening in London’s West End to attend to. But when Sunday Times critic Margaret Throsby pans the production and then winds up stabbed in the heart with […]
In Imogen Crimp’s A Very Nice Girl: A Novel, Anna unexpectedly wins a place at the London Conservatory. Max, a man she meets in the bar where she sings, is everything she’s not: rich, tailored to precision, impossible to read. Soon, her infatuation with him starts to turn her away from her career – and […]
Nikki May’s debut novel, Wahala: A Novel, follows three Anglo Nigerian best friends. Ronke, who wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids, is dating Kayode, who her friends think is just another in a long line of dodgy Nigerian boyfriends. Boo, who has everything Ronke wants but is frustrated, unfulfilled, plagued by guilt, and desperate […]