Counterpoint

“A stunning overview of the nascent modern world through a thematic exploration of the year 1616 . . . with dozens of fabulous illustrations” (Publ...

"The South Pole discovered" trumpeted the front page of The Daily Chronicle on March 8, 1912, marking Roald Amundsen's triumph over the tragic Robe...

By 1929, the brief, brilliant career of Bix Beiderbecke––self–taught cornetist, pianist, and composer––had already become legend. From the summer o...

A darkly funny sports memoir about a mid-life crisis, exercise addiction, tennis, and how to grow up when you really, really don't want toAt forty-...

A personal and cultural exploration of silence and its value in our lives—“[an] artful book, mixing autobiography, travel writing, meditation, and ...

Winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award“Tonic for the spirit: a charming, deeply moving, unerringly human story, perfectly shaped and...

This “darkly funny and provocative” coming-of-age novel balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty teenage girl whose Canadian family is shatt...

In 1955, Jenny Van Horne was a 21-year-old, naive Bennington College graduate on her own for the first time in New York City when she met 46–year–o...

First published in 1966, A Conference of Victims charts the corrosive power of guilt and loneliness, showing how one terrible act can possess a fam...

"This book is broad and leisurely and important. Something like the river itself on which Wendell Berry lives. It is full of wide and flowing thoug...

A charming collection of traditional remedies and folk medicines which have been prepared from Shakespeare's time to the present.First published in...

While traveling the world in order to write her award winning book Wild, Jay Griffiths became increasingly aware of the huge differences in how chi...

First published in 1971, The Country of Marriage is Wendell Berry's fifth volume of poetry. What he calls "an expansive metaphor" is "a farmer's re...

Longlisted for the International Booker PrizeThe Wall Street Journal, A Best Book of the YearUsing a sophisticated and literary version of the ever...

On a warm September night in 1991, in a quiet neighborhood north of Houston, Texas, David McGlynn's closest friend and teammate on the high school ...

When a copywriter is stranded on a small island in the Pacific after helping a soft drink commercial shoot, she uncovers a terrible secret that eve...

A critically acclaimed author of The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld heralds an radically inventive and kaleidoscopic approach to the genre of ...

Haunting in their tone, brilliant in their images––very like fantastic presences moving across glass––the twenty–one fictions in this startling deb...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice“Erotic, paranoiac and lightly fantastical.” —The Wall Street Journal“Ismail Kadare's readers are aston...

Lee, a high school shop teacher in Evergreen, Colorado, managed to survive his messy divorce only to hurtle into what some might call a full–on mid...

In 1966, Rebecca Wilson's father, a Union Leader and civil rights activist, was assassinated on the street in San Francisco. Rebecca—known througho...

A groundbreaking narrative on the urgency of ethically designed AI and a guidebook to reimagining life in the era of intelligent technology.The Age...