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This collection of essays, chosen by the Philip Hamburger from his 60 years of writing for The New Yorker, chronicles not only the people of US pol...

This collection of essays, chosen by the Philip Hamburger from his 60 years of writing for The New Yorker, chronicles not only the people of US pol...

First published in 1899, this graphic depiction of urban American life centers around McTeague, a "dentist" practicing in San Francisco at the turn...

Ann Pancake's 2007 novel Strange As This Weather Has Been exposed the devastating fallout of mountaintop removal mining on a single West Virginia f...

In this funny and telling portrait of the artist as a young pornographer, Bernard Wolfe chronicles his own unlikely entrance into the world of lett...

“[A] well–edited collection . . . More than friends and less than lovers, Salter and Phelps were literary soul mates.” —Publishers WeeklyIt was Jam...

This ancient text records the teachings of Mencius (4th c. B.C.E.), the second originary sage in the Confucian tradition which has shaped Chinese c...

A whip-smart and entertaining work of narrative history that shows how an unlikely partnership borne of necessity spawned a lucrative marijuana ind...

Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates PrizeA rich and nuanced story beginning with a moment of fear and abandonment that will reverberate across dec...

Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates PrizeA rich and nuanced story beginning with a moment of fear and abandonment that will reverberate across dec...

Shunryu Suzuki Roshi founded the San Francisco Zen Center in 1962, and after fifty years we have seen a fine group of Zen masters trained in the we...

For more than four decades, Robert Aitken Roshi has taught thousands of people the Buddhist practice of Zen meditation, and has led hundreds throug...

Winner of the Tanizaki Prize in 2022, her latest short story collection from 2021, Mittens and Pity is what Yoshimoto calls the greatest achievemen...

A collection of seminal writings on the philosophy of language. In our century, philosophers have become increasingly concerned with the relationsh...

The 20th century was a time of great change, particularly in the arts, but seldom explored were the female poets of that time. Robert Hass and Paul...

When this novel's unnamed narrator meets the elusive but exciting Richard (an envelope salesman with a nice layman's line in Zen philosophies), he ...

"A beautiful translation . . . Yoshimoto deploys a magically Japanese light touch to emotionally and existentially tough subject matter: domestic d...

A literary mediation on life and death, being and non–being, and the intense mystery and beauty of existence between a mother and child.“Heartbreak...

This “haunting” family saga set in WWII Germany “illuminates the reality of war away from the frontlines . . . with a compassion and depth of under...

Described as "a writer in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and other self–educated seers" by the San Francisco Chronicle, David Rai...

Discover 35+ treasured poems by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder in this landmark poetry collection celebrating Zen Buddhism, travel, and ou...

The classic novel about a repressed upper–middle–class husband in the American Midwest, by a New York Times bestselling and Man Booker Prize winnin...

"Again and again. . . I find myself being a Mrs. Bridge evangelist, telling them that it’s a perfect novel, and then pressing copies on them. . . W...

Messy. Clumsy. Volatile. Exciting. These words are not often associated with the sciences, which for most people still connote exactitude, elegance...