An unforgettable memoir of fatherhood, grief, and the life-saving power of love and art in the wake of unimaginable loss. “This is a story that nobody should ever have to tell, yet Matthew Schnippe...
From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his ...
Join us on July 22 at 7 PM at McNally Jackson Seaport for an evening celebrating the launch of the new Sensorium Ex book and audiobook by Brenda Shaughnessy, as well as the album release, duri...
A gripping tale of murder and pursuit set against the shifting Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush, where ambition, violence, and destiny collide.
From a New York Times media correspondent, a dishy history of the Condé Nast magazine empire, home of Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and more, focusing on its glitzy heyday from the 1980s thr...
From the author of the bestselling phenomenon Dietland comes a razor-sharp, subversive thriller about motherhood, obsession, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.
From Proust to Edith Wharton to Eve Babitz, literature is full of writers who capture character, time, and ideas through clothing. In this book club, a limited extension of the Fashion Fiction read...
From Melissa Febos, the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transfor...
Join the New Directions crew on an odyssey, no caper, called: THE LIFE OF THE MIND (to borrow a beloved expression by Helen DeWitt). We'll read staff favorites and New Directions staples with an em...
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times, "Daylight Come" takes us to places no biography in recent memory has . . . This book fills the heart and mind, and is essential reading f...
Kitten Launch: A magnetic, stirring debut novel about an adrift young woman whose growing fascination with her boyfriend’s cat ushers her into the possibilities of her own life—but not without first threateni...
Are you too hardcore for the current state of American letters? The tragic truth is that most new books seem afraid to shock, experiment, offend, get weird. Is there still a place in this world for...
Malavika Kannan establishes herself as an inimitable voice of Gen Z in this piercing coming-of-age debut novel. Which comes first: experience or narrative?
Malavika Kannan establishes herself as an inimitable voice of Gen Z in this piercing coming-of-age debut novel. Which comes first: experience or narrative?
From Proust to Edith Wharton to Eve Babitz, literature is full of writers who capture character, time, and ideas through clothing. In this book club, a limited extension of the Fashion Fiction read...
Join the New Directions crew on an odyssey, no caper, called: THE LIFE OF THE MIND (to borrow a beloved expression by Helen DeWitt). We'll read staff favorites and New Directions staples with an em...
A charismatic doctor claimed to have rediscovered the ancestral roots of “toad medicine,” becoming the face of a global psychedelic movement. But in his wake, he left a trail of destruction tha...
We will discuss audience - was this a work intended to be read? To what extent is the author performing for an imagined future readership? Is that a wink at us buried in a book from decades ago?
A story of first love across cities spanning the decade that transformed the internet. In the halls of an elite East Coast high school, Arjun and Payal fall in love as the world begins to tilt toward...
Join us on July 22 at 7 PM at McNally Jackson Seaport for an evening celebrating the launch of the new Sensorium Ex book and audiobook by Brenda Shaughnessy, as well as the album release, duri...
A gripping tale of murder and pursuit set against the shifting Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush, where ambition, violence, and destiny collide.
From a New York Times media correspondent, a dishy history of the Condé Nast magazine empire, home of Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and more, focusing on its glitzy heyday from the 1980s thr...
From the author of the bestselling phenomenon Dietland comes a razor-sharp, subversive thriller about motherhood, obsession, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.
From Proust to Edith Wharton to Eve Babitz, literature is full of writers who capture character, time, and ideas through clothing. In this book club, a limited extension of the Fashion Fiction read...
From Melissa Febos, the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transfor...
Join the New Directions crew on an odyssey, no caper, called: THE LIFE OF THE MIND (to borrow a beloved expression by Helen DeWitt). We'll read staff favorites and New Directions staples with an em...
Join the New Directions crew on an odyssey, no caper, called: THE LIFE OF THE MIND (to borrow a beloved expression by Helen DeWitt). We'll read staff favorites and New Directions staples with an em...
An eye-opening look at how social media shapes the stories we tell and the lives we lead. Over the past two decades, platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok have revolutionized how we document...