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Longlisted for the National Book Award A New York Times Notable Book The moving, multi-generational debut novel from the author of On the Rooftop,...

Longlisted for the National Book Award A New York Times Notable Book The moving, multi-generational debut novel from the author of On the Rooftop,...

A stunning new translation—“the best in a century, without a doubt”—of the Hebrew Bible that restores the creativity and poetry of the original tex...

From the Booker Prize–winning novelist and screenwriter of Howard’s End: “Cinematic” and “exquisite” stories of longing, loss, and redemption (Publ...

It's 1948, and postwar Rome is giddy and chaotic. Poet Dante Sabato is attending yet another film industry soirée at Tullio Merlini's apartment off...

In medicine, a single mistake in an otherwise spotless career can determine the rest of your life—even if the mistake was not your ownElizabeth Tay...

America's citizens seem plagued by despair and frustration, much deeper today than the "malaise" President Jimmy Carter noted twenty years ago. Our...

Since the 1950s, eminent field biologist George Schaller has roamed through many lands observing wild animals and conducting landmark long–term stu...

From Lao–tse and the Buddha, St. Anthony and the early Celtic hermits, through Rousseau, Thoreau, Ruskin, and up to the present day, certain gifted...

WINNER OF THE BARBARA AND DAVID ZALAZNICK BOOK PRIZEFinalist for the High Plains International Book AwardINSIDE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK: Discover...

WINNER OF THE BARBARA AND DAVID ZALAZNICK BOOK PRIZEFinalist for the High Plains International Book AwardINSIDE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK: Discover...

In this classic collection of 29 pieces that span half a century, Gary Snyder explores humans' complex, ever–evolving attitudes toward the environm...

In this eleventh volume spanning 1864 to 1991, Wednell Berry's entire Port William membership returns—filling gaps, keeping faith, and proving that...

In the second book of the beloved Port William series, Wendell Berry weaves a portrait of a community bound by war, loss, and hope, where "the eart...

Born into "a certain kind of family"—affluent, white, Protestant—Jane Vandenburgh came of age when the sexual revolution was sweeping the cultural ...

A motivational memoir by a formerly incarcerated man who transformed from founder and leader of the Dallas Bloods to a practitioner of peace and no...

A motivational memoir by a formerly incarcerated man who transformed from founder and leader of the Dallas Bloods to a practitioner of peace and no...

In Japan, the line that divides myth from reality is not merely blurred, it is nonexistent. Superstitions, legends, and folk myths are passed down ...

In 1997, Mark Gonnerman organized a yearlong research workshop on Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End at the Stanford Humanities Center....

This collection of Wendell Berry poems and essays—written outdoors on the Sabbath—“[shines] with the gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought d...

Larry Woiwode's literary fame began with his first novel, the 1969 classic What I'm Going to Do, I Think, and continued unabated through his brilli...

Like the savory, simple dishes she favored, M. F. K. Fisher's writing was often "short, stylish, concentrated in flavor, and varied in form," write...

Lord Hugh Dowding, Air Chief Marshall of the Royal Air Force, Head of Fighter Command, First Baron of Bentley Priory, lived in the grip of unseen s...

"A powerful and essential memoir of self-discovery . . . Brimming with beautiful remembrances of his grandfather and terrifying stories of abuse an...