"Incisive, strange, and often philosophically compelling."—Time Out (Critics' Pick)

"Short and sweet. . . . The pleasure of Guida's aphorisms is the way they illuminate the ridiculous, childlike, or reckless nature of our actions while simultaneously convincing us that we would...

Geoffrey Biddle's photographs of his aunt and uncle, Flora and Sydney Biddle, are startling works that explore love, aging, life and death, the complexities of family ties, and the power of the family unit.

Geoffrey Biddle is a photographer and educator. His book Alph...

“Sparkling with energy and intelligence, these poems are like chips in a mosaic, spare, hard, precise, and with a classic humanity and grace.”—David Malouf

“The poems are exquisite and comprehensive. Their music and surface beauty invite i...

Originally published in a very limited printing in England in 1951, this enchanting rediscovery is set in a small villa among the dunes of Le Toquet. It is the story of two energetic, mischievous and sensitive children and their encounters with a privileged set of adult visitors who are in Norman...

"The author puts forward a bracing theory of partial empathy....Johnston's searching book of thought-probes goes a long way toward allowing the reader the grounding that would allow him to make empathic contacts with the animals over which he ponders....Each time another animal becomes e...

In Richard Howard's new collection, voices of myth and memory prevail, if only by means of prevarication: the voice of Medea's mother trying to explain her daughter's odd behavior to an indiscreet interviewer; or first and last the voice of Henry James, late in life, faced with the disputed prosp...

With All Aboard, acclaimed fiction writer Joe Ashby Porter ventures into new, sometimes unprecedented territory, from the luxe restraint of "Merrymount," through the stops-out eroticism of "Pending," to the distilled heebie-jeebies of "Dream On." Here, reading, travel, and sexual orientati...