Counterpoint

When American authors John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway went to Spain in 1937 to witness the Spanish Civil War firsthand, the devastation they e...

This is a wonderful comic novel, about philosophy, the nature of art, the beauty of the ordinary, and about quirky, complete, night & day victi...

After Del Tribute almost sleeps with his brother's sexually edgy wife, The Brothers sets out to trace and detail the intricate pattern of consequen...

In the vein of his bestseller, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, nationally recognized social critic Jerry Mander researches, discu...

The nature writing of Gary Ferguson arises out of intimate experience. He trekked 500 miles through Yellowstone to write Walking Down the Wild and ...

Set against the wild beauty of Montana as a woman attempts to heal from a devastating accident, this generational saga from the award-winning autho...

Set against the wild beauty of Montana as a woman attempts to heal from a devastating accident, this generational saga from the award-winning autho...

Recently widowed, unhappily stuck on a pricey whiplash tour of Italy, Elizabeth Berman comes face to face with the first documented painting of a t...

Winner of the Silver Medal for the California Book Award for FictionLonglisted for the Dublin Literary PrizeLonglisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Pr...

Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithely optimistic immigrant with big dreams, dire pr...

Acclaimed author Evan S. Connell sends us through the complete experience of a man initially intrigued and then enslaved by art: a curious interest...

What does it mean to be a decent man? To love well, with fidelity and constancy? These are the lessons that Jake's father, a wildlife biologist, tr...

In this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, journalist and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner seeks a new way to talk about...

In this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, journalist and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner seeks a new way to talk about...

For nearly 300 years, capitalism propelled the world's most successful economies to new heights of development. But a spate of global environmental...

A collection of twenty-three stories from one of the most influential figures in modern Japanese literature.Yasunari Kawabata is widely known for h...

Melanie Thernstrom's senior thesis was entitled Mistakes of Metaphor, an account of the mysterious disappearance and murder of her best friend, Bib...

When Guy Davenport looks at the world, the world changes; sometimes just a little and sometimes a lot. And no reader is the same after reading his ...

Finalist for the Gotham Book PrizeAn explosive tale of art and myth, desire and betrayal, from New York Times bestselling author Jill BialoskySomet...

An explosive tale of art and myth, desire and betrayal, from New York Times best-selling author Jill Bialosky"Bialosky urgently captures the moment...

It is 1998. In the safe haven of her London office—a room her husband jokingly calls "The Delivery Room"—therapist Mira Braverman listens to the st...

Based on the life of bronc rider Doughbelly Price, The Diamond Hitch tells the story of Dewey Jones, western cowman and rodeo hooligan, as he trave...

A masterful translation of the Diamond Sutra, an essential Zen Buddhist scripture—with insightful commentary and helpful historical context.Zen Bud...

This unnerving work is a contemplation of the middle–class existence in a changing world, narrated by an unstable man held hostage by his deteriora...