Books published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

The poems in Robert Pinsky's At the Foundling Hospital consider personality and culture as improvised from loss: a creative effort so pervasive it is invisible. An extreme example is the abandoned new-born.

In The Glamour of Strangeness, James evokes extraordinary lives in portraits that bring the transcultural artist into sharp relief. Drawing on his career as a travel writer and years of archival research uncovering previously unpublished letters and journals, James creates a penetrating study of the powerful connection between art and the exotic.

Another brilliant collection from the man David Wojahn has called one of our "most significant and individual voices," The Emperor of Water Clocks delights, challenges, and satisfies.

Dennis Ross has been a participant in shaping U.S. policy toward the Middle East for nearly thirty years. In Doomed to Succeed, he takes us through every administration from Truman to Obama, throwing into dramatic relief each president's attitudes toward Israel and the region, and the events that drove the policies and led to a shift in approach.

Lets you swim along with the pout-pout fish as he discovers that being glum and spreading "dreary-wearies" isn't really his destiny. In this title, bright ocean colours and playful rhyme come together to turn even the poutiest of frowns upside down.