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A preeminent translator of Chinese poetry and Buddhist texts explores the traditions of Chinese hermits in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution...

I had always thought that when I was around 84 and Robin was 80 we could collaborate on a book about the golden years of his career where he could ...

In November of 2000, after the presidential election but before the final results had been handed down by the Supreme Court, John Daniel climbed in...

"If Joan Didion and Fran Lebowitz had a literary love child, she would be Lynn Freed—or, at least, the resulting book would be Lynn Freed’s essay c...

From one of our most daring writers comes this intimate and seductive book: a working journal of pregnancy that was both a Lambda Literary Awards f...

In 1995, Wendell Berry’s Roots to the Earth was published in portfolio form by West Meadow Press. The wood etchings of celebrated artist and wood e...

A "twentieth–century Henry David Thoreau" records the quotidian goings–on on his organic family farmUnder David Kline's attentive gaze and in his c...

The wildly various stories in Running After Antelope are connected and illuminated by a singular passion: the author's attempt to run down a prongh...

Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, a captivating new novel about a group of nurses fighti...

Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, a captivating new novel about a group of nurses fighti...

From the depths of Death Valley, Daniel Arnold set out to reach Mount Whitney in a way no road or trail could take him. Anything manmade or designe...

Set against the Rocky Mountains, this emotionally charged Western noir explores themes of fathers and sons, men and masculinity, and religion and s...

“John Winters offers a master class in literary sleuthing, untangling the many lives and unearthing the origin story of America’s foremost Renaissa...

Samuel Johnson is a writer of such significance that his era — the second half of the 18th century — is known as the Age of Johnson. Starting out a...

Twin Peaks meets Into the Wild in this fascinating real-life mystery about two missing hikers in a remote forest, a jarring examination of the cont...

Spanning the underworld haunts of Montreal to Havana and Miami in the early days of the Cold War, Satellite Boy reveals the unlikely connection bet...

Spanning the underworld haunts of Montreal to Havana and Miami in the early days of the Cold War, Satellite Boy reveals the unlikely connection bet...

"Mr. Amelinckx is an adroit storyteller and thorough researcher, and in Satellite Boy he has written a good, engrossing yarn." —The Wall Street Jou...

"Mr. Amelinckx is an adroit storyteller and thorough researcher, and in Satellite Boy he has written a good, engrossing yarn." —The Wall Street Jou...

Jay Griffiths is a tour guide for anyone who has ever wished to commune with the side of our human psyche that remains in touch with the wild. Equa...

Following a tortuous path of sabotage and treason, exiled Scotsman Duncan McCallum must survive his enemies long enough to glimpse the emergence of...

A biologist draws on science and psychology to validate the benefits of 7 common religious practices—from meditation and gratitude to rituals and p...

In the epigraph to this volume, Penelope Fitzgerald tells us: "If a story begins with finding, it must end with searching," and so we discover each...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year“A candid, often painful depiction of a daughter’s struggles to come to terms with her powerful and emotio...