"Denis Johnson is an artist. He writes with a natural authority, and there is real music in his prose." — Mona Simpson, The New York Times Book ReviewIn t...

This is the story of Skip Sands, a PSYOP spy operating in Vietnam, and all the misfortunes that await him because of Skip's famous uncle, a war veteran known...

In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the belovedBest American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, "The Model T gave way to the ...

An anthology of stories edited by Mike AshleyMarianne is an important fictional formulation of Sand's thinking on the role of women and the nature of demo...

Denis Johnson’s The Laughing Monsters is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at ...

A contemporary noir, Already Dead is the tangled story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune. A relentless ...

A New York Times Notable Book An Esquire Best Book of 2011 A New Yorker Favorite Book of 2011 A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of 2011Denis Johnson’s Tra...

The acclaimed author of Jesus' Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a mesmerizing por...

Once upon a time there was a war. . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither,...

Hailed by the New York Times as "wildly ambitious" and "the sort of book that a young Herman Melville might have written had he lived today and studied su...