ThursdaysJoin us at McNally Jackson Downtown Brooklyn every week for Storytime, on Sundays at 1pm, Wednesdays at 4pm, and Thursdays at 4pm. We'll read fantastic new books together and kids can reconnect with their favorites. Great for kids 4 to 8, but all ages are welcome. We look forward to seeing you! No RSVP required.
As hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed. This is the story of the volunteers who stepped forward to help.
In 2015, increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, most of them fleeing war-torn homelands, arrived by boat on the shores of Greece, setting off the greatest human displacement in Europe since WWII. As journalists reported horrific mass drownings, an ill-prepared and seemingly indifferent world looked on. Those who reached Europe needed food, clothing, medicine, and shelter, but the international aid system broke down completely.
All Else Failed is Dana Sachs's compelling eyewitness account of the successes--and failures--of the volunteer relief network that emerged to meet the enormous need. Closely following the odysseys of seven individual men and women, and their families, it tells a story of despair and resilience, revealing the humanity within an immense humanitarian disaster.
"Disarmingly tender and feverishly sad, Gardel's love story is a delirium of a novel that reminds its readers of an uncomfortable truth: that even a life of regret can be a beautiful one."--Patrick Nathan, author of Some Hell
“Incredible debut work . . . Packs a literal and figurative punch . . . Through swirling reflections, the novel moves like a steady whirlwind, conveying inner turmoil and external inaction, punctuated by powerful sometimes devastating change.” — Asymptote
Join Brazillian author Stênio Gardel and, Bruna Dantas Lobato, the translator of his highly anticipated debut novel, The Words That Remain.
SundaysJoin us at McNally Jackson Downtown Brooklyn every week for Storytime, on Sundays at 1pm, Wednesdays at 4pm, and Thursdays at 4pm. We'll read fantastic new books together and kids can reconnect with their favorites. Great for kids 4 to 8, but all ages are welcome. We look forward to seeing you! No RSVP required.
In a near-future northern settlement, the fates of a young woman, a professor, and a mysterious collective of climate researchers collide in this mesmerizing and transportive debut that “delivers its big ideas with suspense, endlessly surprising twists, and abundant heart” (Jessamine Chan, New York Times bestselling author).
WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION NOMINEE • An elegant and hypnotic new novel of obsession that centers on the real unsolved mystery of the 1951 mass poisoning of a French village, by the Booker Prize–nominated author of The Water Cure
"Intoxicating, sumptuous, and savage.”—Alexandra Kleeman, acclaimed author of Something New Under the Sun
"Vivid and shocking, written with stunning, incantatory prose, Cursed Bread is the kind of book that upends your nervous system." —Julia May Jonas, author of Vladimir
Join us at Elizbeth Street Garden for the launch of Katie Holten's newest book, The Language of Trees
Inspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape invites readers to discover an unexpected and imaginative language to better read and write the natural world around us and reclaim our relationship with it.
“A masterpiece. Katie Holten's tree alphabet is a gift to the printed world.”—Max Porter, author of Grief is a Thing with Feathers
A new edition of the acclaimed debut story collection by two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Casey Plett.
"Her prose is reminiscent of Lorrie Moore and Miriam Toews, but there is both a tenderness and a willingness to confront bleak truths in Plett's writing that is all her own. I love this book." – Imogen Binnie, author of Nevada
Join us at McNally Jackson Downtown Brooklyn every week for Storytime, on Sundays at 1pm, Wednesdays at 4pm, and Thursdays at 4pm. We'll read fantastic new books together and kids can reconnect with their favorites. Great for kids 4 to 8, but all ages are welcome. We look forward to seeing you! No RSVP required.
A stunning, contemporary Black southern gothic novel about what it means to be a poor woman in the God- fearing south. Perfect for readers of The Other Black Girl and Luster
“Every page, every scene, every sentence of Monica Brashears’s debut novel House of Cotton dazzles and surprises. An intense, enthralling, and deeply satisfying read!” —Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"A new, dazzling, and essential American voice." —George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo
Join Christine Smallwood for six, hour-long sessions to dive into George Eliot's extraordinary novel.
There is no novel quite like Middlemarch. This book has it all: bad marriages, thwarted ambition, professional failure, gambling, debt, death, electoral politics, and the rise of the railroad. It is so many books woven together into one: a realist novel of marriage, career, politics, and social change; a historical appraisal of the recent past; a philosophical exploration of consciousness; an ethical treatise on the meaning of interdependence. As Eliot’s narrator says, in one of her famous addresses to the reader, “Any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbour.” Such convergences are only one of the many pleasures of Middlemarch. Our discussions in this seminar will be wide-ranging, but we will pay special attention to how Eliot imagines change—both social and personal—and how she portrays consciousness, particularly as it relates to intention, decision, action, and spiritual vocation.
Christine Smallwood is the author of the novel The Life of the Mind.