With Corrigan Caroline Blackwood takes a long, hard look at our dearly beloved notions of saints and sinners, victims and villains, patrimony and present pleasure—and winks.

A playful, Wildean meringue of missed meaning and romantic tangles.

A landmark work of African-American thought written in a period of immense social ferment.

An inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets and a brilliantly argued essay in the history of ideas.

Ségur's account is to this day one of the greatest military disasters of all time and a masterpiece of military history, providing a vivid and unmistakable lesson about imperial hubris and its risks.

Full of unexpected riches, Dime-Store Alchemy is both an entrancing meditation on the nature of art and a perfect introduction to a major American artist by a peer.

One of the most chilling and compassionate of Simenon's extraordinary psychological novels, The Engagement explores the mystery of a blameless heart in a compromised soul.

Envy is an anarchic comedy of co-dependency and complete misunderstanding.

This first complete English translation of The Ermine of Czernopol makes a masterpiece of postwar literature available to American readers.

The Family Mashber is a protean work: a tale of a divided family and divided souls, a panoramic picture of an Eastern European town.