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Populated by strangers, ghosts, and other shadowy figures, the thirteen stories in The Unsettling attend to those startling moments when what we ha...

Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that goo...

"Rarely has a marriage so come alive in a work of fiction. . . So intense, beautifully written, shining with 'felt life,' it is truly gripping—rive...

In 1958, Doris Muscatine's husband, a medieval scholar, got a Fulbright for a year of research in Italy. They lived in Rome and almost immediately ...

The current revival of the work of Maeve Brennan, who died in obscurity in 1993, has won her a reputation as a twentieth–century classic—one of the...

A soulful, searching collection of essays that tackle the complexities of contemporary America from “the prophet of rural America” (New York Times)...

Prize–winning essayist turns to the imagination as a spiritual guide and material method of living through climate disruption, as climate change an...

Richard Selzer traded in his scalpel for a pen over fifteen years ago, but the precision and exacting intellect of his medical background carried o...

Sylvia Brownrigg's “wise, intimate, and deliciously entertaining memoir" (Carol Edgarian) reconstructs a poignant story of fathers lost and foundWh...

Sylvia Brownrigg's “wise, intimate, and deliciously entertaining memoir" (Carol Edgarian) reconstructs a poignant story of fathers lost and foundWh...

Winner of the 2017 Reading the West Award A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"This gorgeously written historical novel follows Dulcy, a yo...

Winner of the 2017 Reading the West Award A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"This gorgeously written historical novel follows Dulcy, a yo...

Named one of BuzzFeed's Best Fiction of 2018 "Geni's character–driven environmental thriller—think Silent Spring by way of Celeste Ng—centers on th...

This internationally bestselling historical novel that "fans of The Book Thief will enjoy" follows two children and a mysterious narrator as they n...

National Book Award finalist Karen E. Bender returns with a story collection that uses both a realistic and a speculative lens to explore a univers...

The most comprehensive―and only author-authorized―Wendell Berry reader, "America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living" (Chicago Tr...

For the first time, one of New York City's major resident authors spins a breathtakingly immediate, intimate family novel set around the September ...

The author calls this "a true romance," saying, it's the part of her personal history she, being superstitious, was almost afraid to write. She'd g...

Benjamin Franklin was in his early twenties when he embarked on a "bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection," intending to master t...

A brilliant and original memoir of midlife–a writing life, a reading life, a woman's life–by the distinguished author of Parallel LivesPhyllis Rose...

Written in Sergei Dovlatov's unique voice and unmatched style, The Zone is a satirical novelization of Dovlatov's time as a prison guard for the So...

A master wildlife tracker's life is thrown into upheaval when she is tapped to hunt not the animals of America's Southwestern terrain, but her own ...

This collection offers two dozen essays and sketches about one of the passions of Salter's life, travel, a subject beloved by writers across the ce...

"In these pointed and wide–ranging essays, Wendy Willis explores everything from personal resistance to the rise of political podcasts, civic lonel...