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Rethinking Rescue boldly confronts two of the biggest challenges of our time—poverty and homelessness—in asking the question: Who deserves the love...

The tomato. As savory as any vegetable, as sweet as its fellow fruits, the seeded succulent inspires a cult–like devotion from food lovers on all c...

By any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poets in America in the last century. From his first book of poems to his latest collection of e...

With its title harkening back to the sack of Baghdad in 1258—when the Tigris ran black with the ink of books flung into the water by Mongol invader...

A preeminent translator of Chinese poetry and Buddhist texts explores the traditions of Chinese hermits in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution...

I had always thought that when I was around 84 and Robin was 80 we could collaborate on a book about the golden years of his career where he could ...

In November of 2000, after the presidential election but before the final results had been handed down by the Supreme Court, John Daniel climbed in...

"A marvelous collection." —The New York Times Book Review Traversing decades and continents, The Romance of Elsewhere captures the dilemma of the ...

From one of our most daring writers comes this intimate and seductive book: a working journal of pregnancy that was both a Lambda Literary Awards f...

In 1995, Wendell Berry’s Roots to the Earth was published in portfolio form by West Meadow Press. The wood etchings of celebrated artist and wood e...

A "twentieth–century Henry David Thoreau" records the quotidian goings–on on his organic family farmUnder David Kline's attentive gaze and in his c...

The wildly various stories in Running After Antelope are connected and illuminated by a singular passion: the author's attempt to run down a prongh...

From the depths of Death Valley, Daniel Arnold set out to reach Mount Whitney in a way no road or trail could take him. Anything manmade or designe...

“John Winters offers a master class in literary sleuthing, untangling the many lives and unearthing the origin story of America’s foremost Renaissa...

Samuel Johnson is a writer of such significance that his era — the second half of the 18th century — is known as the Age of Johnson. Starting out a...

Spanning the underworld haunts of Montreal to Havana and Miami in the early days of the Cold War, Satellite Boy reveals the unlikely connection bet...

"Mr. Amelinckx is an adroit storyteller and thorough researcher, and in Satellite Boy he has written a good, engrossing yarn." —The Wall Street Jou...

Jay Griffiths is a tour guide for anyone who has ever wished to commune with the side of our human psyche that remains in touch with the wild. Equa...

A biologist draws on science and psychology to validate the benefits of 7 common religious practices—from meditation and gratitude to rituals and p...

In the epigraph to this volume, Penelope Fitzgerald tells us: "If a story begins with finding, it must end with searching," and so we discover each...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year“A candid, often painful depiction of a daughter’s struggles to come to terms with her powerful and emotio...

When a man discovers his father in New York has long had another, secret, family—a wife and two kids—the interlocking fates of both families lead t...

A personal and highly original take on the history of six commercial plants, Seeds of Change illuminates how sugar, tea, cotton, the potato, quinin...

Seeds of Wealth is a collection of elegant essays focusing on the economic and cultural consequences of the exploitation of timber, tobacco, rubber...