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The fight for a $15 minimum wage. Nationwide teacher strikes. Bernie Sanders’s political revolution and the rise of AOC. Black Lives Matter. #MeToo...

The fight for a $15 minimum wage. Nationwide teacher strikes. Bernie Sanders’s political revolution and the rise of AOC. Black Lives Matter. #MeToo...

Richard Wollheim grew up lonely and sad in London's wealthy suburbs during the 1920s and 1930s, yet his was a childhood more interesting than most....

Retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney becomes ensnared in a case of murderous political intrigue tearing apart a once bucolic Upstate New York townThe...

"Although author Carole Maso follows the contours of fiction, style is everything in Ghost Dance, a strangely lovely and perplexing book . . . she ...

A masterful blend of graphic reporting, illuminating interviews, and insightful analysis. Ghosts of Afghanistan is the first account of Afghanistan...

"[A] remarkable story." —The New York Times Book ReviewHenry Fielder, solitary and unmoored in his thirties, runs into an old lover and finds himse...

For five decades Wendell Berry has been a poet of great clarity and purpose. He is an award–winning writer whose imagination is grounded by the pas...

“If I had to choose from all the world a writer to tell me a story—Andrés Felipe Solano would be at the top of my list. He's an enchanter, a journa...

“If I had to choose from all the world a writer to tell me a story—Andrés Felipe Solano would be at the top of my list. He's an enchanter, a journa...

“A work of extraordinary imagination and sympathy, a journey from slavery to the mountaintop, perfectly realized.” —Ken Burns, American filmmakerBo...

Lili St. Cyr was, in the words of legendary reporter Mike Wallace, the "highest paid stripteaser in America." Wallace was so fascinated by Lili tha...

Lili St. Cyr was, in the words of legendary reporter Mike Wallace, the "highest paid stripteaser in America." Wallace was so fascinated by Lili tha...

A singular life often circles around a singular moment, an occasion when one's life in the world is defined forever and the emotional vocabulary se...

Unlike David Markson's most recent works, including Vanishing Point and Wittgenstein's Mistress, which David Foster Wallace described as "pretty mu...

“You haven’t been west in any meaningful sense until you’ve been to Blue Deer, Montana . . . Rekindles our delight in Ms. Harrison’s offbeat sensib...

Experience the “fascinating, rich”—and often harrowing—history of the Klondike Gold Rush through the stories of Jack London and 5 other men and wom...

A Gentleman in Moscow meets My Brilliant Friend in this novel of two estranged friends who reunite to confront each other and the devastating betra...

Finalist for the Vermont Book AwardsLonglisted for the Clark Prize for FictionLonglisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize A Gentleman in Moscow meet...

A New York Times Best Book of the Year A universal story of freedom, love, and motherhood, this sweeping, intergenerational saga features a group o...

Andalusia: ancient homeland of the mysterious Iberians, birthplace of Roman emperors, seedbed of modern Anarchism, and unmarked gravesite of Spain'...

“A profound work of true beauty and mystery” ––Luis Alberto Urrea A fearless work from the prize-winning acclaimed author, composed over a period o...

Written with the precision of Cynthia Ozick and the blunt passion of Alice Munro, this riveting story takes place on a landscape—the deserts of Eas...

Even as seas rise against the shores, another great tide is beginning to rise—a tide of outrage against the pillage of the planet, a tide of commit...