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A landmark in historical research, tying the Mafia and Cuba to the assassination of JFK—updated to reveal the role of Cuban Commander Juan Almeida....

Shuttling between cultural comedies and political tragedies, Lawrence Weschler's articles have throughout his long career intrigued readers with hi...

Finalist in CALIBA's 2022 Golden Poppy Book AwardsA collection of previously uncollected and unpublished works by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Beat poe...

November 2004: George W. Bush is re–elected. Five days later, Alan Meister, a New York professor of philosophy, is diagnosed with lymphoma—not that...

In this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W. S. Merwin recalls in utterly unsentimental prose his youth, growing up in a repressed Presbyterian h...

Jack McCann is a high–stakes Wall Street trader who sneaks into his office early one morning to try and clear out his things and get out of dodge; ...

During the nineteeth century, something vital went missing: the human being. In Unsuspecting Souls, Barry Sanders examines modern society's indiffe...

Nell Dunn's scenes of London life, as it was lived in the early Sixties in the industrial slums of Battersea, have few parallels in contemporary wr...

From Wittgenstein's Mistress to Reader's Block to Springer's Progress to This Is Not a Novel, he has delighted and amazed readers for decades. And ...

Written 400 years ago by a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, one hundred years after Columbus and around the time Shakespeare completed Henry VI, accomp...

Set against the backdrop of a decaying Pacific Northwest lumber town, Vera Violet is a debut that explores themes of poverty, violence, and environ...

This remarkable book joins the company of "self–work," deep acts of memory that serve to illuminate the present by shining the clear light of caref...

"Voices isn't just illuminating and thought–provoking and clever; it is exciting." —Roddy Doyle, author of The CommitmentsA personal exploration of...

Oceane, successful computer graphics designer and former erotic dancer, likes to travel, but doesn't like to go out; in fact, she never leaves home...

Jarring yet slyly comic, Waiting for Rescue evokes a world turned upside down after the events of 9/11 as seen through the eyes of a wry and observ...

In her first collection of short stories, Beth Goldner looks at loss-of love, of health, of life-through the lives of ordinary women in extraordina...

An exploration of sense of place, what it means, how it developed, and why it matters.Based on an eighteenth-century literary device in which a gro...

When he discovered that the city he lived in for many years was actually entirely rebuilt during the mid–1800s, Leonard Pitt plunged into Paris's h...

A historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee traces the birth of modern horror movies and literature back to World War I, exploring how the conflict i...

This volume of six linked stories and the novella from which the book derives its title is set in Port William from 1908 to the Second World War. H...

In the last one hundred years, imported water has transformed the environment of the Golden State and its quality of life, with land ownership patt...

A groundbreaking investigation into the events of the Watergate Scandal, complete with fascinating new material, all “exhaustively researched” in t...

Questioning the value of dams requires a serious readjustment in the country's notion of progress, a prospect threatening to some and daunting to a...

The inspiration for the film starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, this resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenag...