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Literature & Fiction
The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face. Alexander... See More
Literature & Fiction
A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers -- an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem's superb new novel stand two extraordinary women: Rose... See More
Fantasy
A dead man is brought back to life so he can support his family in "The Happy Man"; occasionally he slips into a zombielike state while his soul is tortured in Hell. In "Vanilla Dunk," future basketball players are given the... See More
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER ? A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist. "A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story... See More
Jonathan Lethem's first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn "One of America's greatest storytellers." -- Washington Post Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Award-winning writers contribute to a "moving... entertaining... enlightening" collection of essays, each inspired by a historic ACLU case (New York Times). On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries... See More
Literature & Fiction
Unstuck returns with more than 500 pages of elephant men and minotaurs, magic charms and lost islands, talking dogs and miniature husbands, library urchins and zombie bank robbers, mechanical cattle, and many other... See More
Literature & Fiction
Anna Karenina left her husband for a dashing officer. Lady Chatterley left hers for the gamekeeper. Now Alice Coombs has her boyfriend for nothing... nothing at all. Just how that should have come to pass and what Philip... See More
Science Fiction
Girl in Landscape is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual awakening, a meditation on language and perception, and an homage to the great American tradition of the Western. ? "Jonathan Lethem's imagination... See More
Named a Best Book of the Year by: Boston Globe * New Yorker * NPR * PopMatters From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn comes a sweeping story of community, crime... See More
Humor & Satire
A hard-boiled detective tale full of talking animals and murder, from the award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Arrest Winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems... See More
Literature & Fiction
Bestselling author Jonathan Lethem delivers a hilarious novel about love, art, and what it's like to be young in Los Angeles. Lucinda Hoekke's daytime gig as a telephone operator at the Complaint Line -- an art gallery's... See More
Literary Fiction
From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly original post-collapse yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car. The Arrest isn't... See More
Literary Fiction
A funny, inventive, and wholly original post-apocalyptic novel from the author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Arrest Meet Chaos, a young man who's living in a movie theater in post-apocalyptic Wyoming, drinking alcohol, and... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
In a volume he describes as "a series of covert and not-so-covert autobiographical pieces," Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession -- from western films and comic books, to the music of Pink Floyd and the... See More
Comics, Manga & Graphic Novels
Collects Omega The Unknown (2007) #1-10. The story of a mute, reluctant super hero from another planet, and the earthly teenager with whom he shares a strange destiny -- and the legion of robots and nanoviruses that have... See More
Literary Fiction
A New York Times Book Review EDITORS' CHOICE. From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, comes the vividly told story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown... See More
Humor & Satire
A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. A searing and wildly entertaining love letter to New York City from the bestselling author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude. Chase Insteadman, former... See More
Literary Criticism
From the award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Ecstasy of Influence comes a new collection of essays that celebrates a life spent in books More Alive and Less Lonely collects over a decade of Jonathan... See More
Humor & Entertainment
"One of the cleverest, most accessibly in-depth film books released this year... a smart-ass novelist exploring a cheesy-cheeky '80s sci-fi flick." -- Hartford Advocate Deep Focus is a series of film books with a fresh... See More
Alex goes to school, the robots deliver some poisoned gifts, Omega gets a day job and The Unparalleled Mink goes a-courtin' in this third issue of the mysterious, absurd and poignant tale of the mute superhero from another... See More
The schooldays of Alex Island and Omega! See More
The plot deepens and thickens and grows strange in author Jonathan Lethem's labor-of-love retelling of the legend of Omega the Unknown, the noble and enigmatic superhero from another world, and Titus Alexander Island, the... See More
In the astounding climax of the saga of Omega versus the robot horde, a battle extraordinaire which will leave all our heroes changed, and one of them really and truly dead. The greatest rooftop performance since the... See More
The story of a mute, reluctant superhero from another planet, and the earthly teenager with whom he shares a strange destiny -- and the legion of robots and nanoviruses that have been sent from afar to hunt the two of them... See More
The Overthinker sings The Ballad of The Bearded Superhero, while the Fonziebot takes a short walk off a tall skyscraper, and Alex meets the real Nowhere Man and battles his robotics professor on the Columbia University quad! See More
Omega gets a job in a fast-food joint, the Unparalleled Mink loses a family member and a body part, and Alex discovers that when you run away from home it's probably better not to retrace your steps, in the fifth chapter of... See More
Twin funerals deepen and darken the saga of young Alex Island and his mysterious protector, Omega The Unknown. Also in this issue: Alex goes to college! And we get a glimpse of some genuine panels from the... See More
You know a super hero's in trouble when he resorts to drawing a comic book to try to solve his problems! Omega The Unknown #7, on top of the usual stellar array of talent, features special guest-star creator Gary Panter... See More
Nothing -- not The Mink, not The Nowhere Man, not hordes of zombified robots or robotified zombies, not even poisoned hamburgers -- can possibly stop Omega The Unknown from concluding his story in this tenth issue of this... See More