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5 young men. 32 destroyed police vehicles. 1 spectacular bank robbery. This “cinematic” true crime story transports readers to the scene of one of ...

5 young men. 32 destroyed police vehicles. 1 spectacular bank robbery. This “cinematic” true crime story transports readers to the scene of one of ...

McClanahan crafts his coming–of–age tales with comic wit and refreshing honesty, inviting readers to relive the memories that shaped his character ...

Those who court danger are often the most circumspect. In this stylish novel, M. F. K. Fisher traces the course of Jennie, a willful wandering woma...

Ever since the explorations of Marco Polo and the travels of Montaigne, a lively dialogue has persisted about the pros and cons of travel. Lynne Sh...

The wildly varied essays in Not–Knowing combine to form a posthumous manifesto of one of America's masters of literary experiment. Here are Barthel...

Praise for Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel:“A unique tour de force.” --The New York Times Book Review“One of the most remarkable b...

During his years as Poet Laureate, Robert Hass revived a popular 19th–century tradition: including poetry in our daily newspapers. "Poet's Choice" ...

A history of how humans developed our capacity for conversation—and what might happen now that computers are catching up.Trevor Cox has been descri...

Winner of the AAAS Book Award for ProseAPALA Adult Literature Honor BookShortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist PrizeLonglisted for the PEN/H...

Set in the months leading up to the 2018 nuclear missile false alarm, a Korean American family living in Hawai'i faces the fallout of their eldest ...

In this enormously appealing "implied autobiography," Merry Prankster Ed McClanahan has assembled a gathering of what he calls "coming–of–age to co...

This collection of four essays on the art of the still life begins with a look back to pictures of meals painted on the walls of Egyptian tombs--as...

In 1971, when William Hjortsberg first published Gray Matters, reviewers mentioned Borges. And in 1972 came Symbiography, a novella about a man who...

A darkly comic novel about personal struggles in the face of life’s odds--the odds of genetics, of finding and keeping love, and of rescue and surv...

Henry David Thoreau has long been revered for his writings and observations on the natural world. His words evoke his environment with stunning cla...

""At first, Oh! seems a satire, a sitcom stripped of its sentiment and foolishness. But it is far more. Mary Robison is trying to show us how the t...

A New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardA Princeton professor-turned-artist recounts her lat...

A New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardA Princeton professor-turned-artist recounts her lat...

From the author of The Seed Collectors comes a darkly comic take on power, privilege, and the pressure put on young women to fit in—and be thin—at ...

Winner of the GLCA New Writers AwardFinalist for the LA Times Book PrizeLonglisted for the Reading the West Book AwardsA smoldering debut novel abo...

Winner of the GLCA New Writers AwardA smoldering debut novel about a young mother in an Orthodox Jewish community of Los Angeles whose quest for au...

Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardAn award–winning constitutional law historian examines case–based evidence of the court's longstanding racial...

Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardAn award–winning constitutional law historian examines case–based evidence of the court's longstanding racial...