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From the French intellectual, novelist, essayist, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the third and final volume of Proust's ...

A rich anthology of memorial tributes that offers a welcome reminder that, although words cannot necessarily assuage grief, they can provide tremen...

Seymour Hersh is now the subject of the documentary film COVER-UP, coming soon to Netflix"Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what ...

David Remnick is a writer with a rare gift for making readers understand the hearts and minds of our public figures. Whether it’s the decline and f...

In these impassioned and inspiring essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual. "Said is a b...

This sequel to Faulkner’s most sensational, Sanctuary, was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the ...

From bawdy talk to evangelical sermons, and from celebrations of free love to prosecutions for obscenity, nineteenth-century America encompassed a ...

"A rare insight into industrial planning on a huge scale...Excellent." --The EconomistRescuing Prometheus is an eye-opening and marvelously informa...

The award-winning author of The Experience of Place delivers an "upbeat and engaging account of the remarkable progress being made to preserve vast...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year"A dark and irresistible miracle: a heartbreaking thriller."--Los Angeles Times"Haunting. . . . A powerful...

A bold, science-based corrective to the groundswell of misinformation about food and how it's produced, examining in detail local and organic food,...

From the National Book Award–winning author comes a highly charged, stunningly original work of fiction—a passionate response to the changes shapin...

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Twenty-three political essays that focus on the victims of history, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the cas...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick chronicles the new Russia that emerged from the ash heap of the Soviet Union. From the siege of Parliam...

An eye-opening investigation into the history of diabetes research and treatment by the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of Why We ...

By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japan's defeat was inevitable, but how the drive to victory would be achieved remained unclear. The ensuing...

A Best Book of the Year: The Economist, Slate, Kirkus ReviewsIn 1839, nearly 20,000 British troops poured through the mountain passes into Afghanis...

Charles, a once-promising poet, is a professor at a minor liberal arts college, admiring of passion but without passion himself. Now living a des...

Legendary community organizer Saul Alinsky inspired a generation of activists and politicians with Reveille for Radicals, the original handbook for...

Excerpts from the private diaries of women, known and unknown, among them Louisa May Alcott, Sophie Tolstoy, George Eliot, Anais Nin.FOREWORD by Ma...

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • The dark, gripping tale of a 1930’s family in the remote hills of the Smoky Mountains, their ...

Revolution 1989 is the first in-depth, authoritative account of a few months that changed the world.At the start of 1989, six European nations were...

An Austin Chronicle Best Book of the YearFred, given name Freedom, is the sole offspring of Lenny Snyder, the infamous pied piper of 1960s counterc...

In twenty-two original essays, leading historians reveal the radical impulses at the founding of the American Republic. Here is a fresh, new readin...