Counterpoint

Combining on–the–slopes experience with off–trail research, author Charlie English follows in the footsteps of the Romantic poets across the Alps, ...

Mikita Brottman wonders, just why is reading so great? It's a solitary practice, one that takes away from time that could be spent developing impor...

At thirty–four, piano soloist Max Randal has hit a wall. It's been four years since his last live performance, and his manager is intent on revital...

Broaching a taboo deeply embedded in the human psyche, this haunting story tells of a woman who desires “something more, as if something more had b...

Simple and magical, The Song of the World is an adventure story for the modern era when two men from France's Provence region embark on a journey t...

On July 20, 2012, twelve people were killed and fifty–eight wounded at a mass shooting in a movie theater in Colorado. In 1999, thirteen kids at Co...

The twenty–one stories collected here—the very best stories of one of The New Yorker's most celebrated writers—trace the patterns of love within th...

The monumental statues of Easter Island, so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island's barren landscape, have ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, Arctic explorer Edward Mackley sets out to reach the North Pole and vanishes into the icy landscape without a...

Experience the history and daily rhythms of Sicily’s remote mountain towns with this stunning travel memoir revealing the hearts and minds of every...

Sergei Dovlatov's subtle, dark–edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects—the items he brought...

The Tattooed Heart finds June Grey dreaming a summer alone with her grandmother in a large isolated house at Grey's Neck on the Long Island shore. ...

Compiled by Gina Berriault's daughter and by her long–time companion, Leonard Gardner, this collection opens with five stories, including, "The Fig...

"Barthelme . . . happens to be one of a handful of American authors, there to make us look bad, who know instinctively how to stash the merchandise...

When Robert Lescher died in 2012 an unpublished manuscript of M.F.K. Fisher's was discovered neatly packed in the one of the literary agent's signa...

“For too long the struggle for the rights of women and girls was seen as women’s business. Of course, it’s equally men’s business and stops being s...

"Kadare is inevitably linked to Orwell and Kundera, but he is a far deeper ironist than the first, and a better storyteller than the second. He is ...

A timely, vital account of California’s unique relationship with China, told through the exploits of the entrepreneurs, activists, and politician...

"Poems, where I come from," writes Robert Bringhurst, "are spoken to be written and written to be spoken. The Tree of Meaning is a book of critical...

From the shadows of the correspondences and the contradictions of biography, the elusive Salomé emerges in this boldly revealing fiction to tell he...

Anyone who cares to understand the cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must know of the writings and lives of those scruffy ...

Only someone who values land enough to farm a hillside for more than thirty years could write about a wild place so lovingly. Wendell Berry just as...

Few places in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia, yet no other area has been so markedly mischaracterized by the ma...