Counterpoint

In the 1800s, the young Clarence King was an icon of the new America: a man of adventure and intellect, a flash–in–the–pan celebrity who combined s...

Formidably talented, Rebecca West was a towering figure in the British literary landscape. Lorna Gibb's vivid and insightful biography affords a da...

Kierkegaard said that faith without doubt is simply credulity, the will to believe too readily, especially without adequate evidence, and that "in ...

John Daniel writes from the ground he walks on and the landscape he inhabits in the northwest corner of America, spinning narratives that seek to d...

A collector's edition, and the perfect gift for the stalwart Wendell Berry fanFirst printed in 1995 by Gray Zeitz of the beloved Larkspur Press in ...

England, 1870: His health failing, his most important work all but done, Charles Dickens is readying himself for the final bed. But there is still...

"This saga of bad luck and good company is a wry, scary, heartfelt ode to the traverses we have to make in life when we're at the end of our rope a...

A woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husband’s novels—this surrealist fable challenges trad...

Following divorce, Fraser resolves to stay in the small mountain town where her son's father lives, but it soon proves too claustrophobic. She find...

The Forgotten Gospels shows how the creation of the canon that we now take for granted excluded many important, informative, and illuminating writi...

Discover 4 seminal masterworks of Chinese thought—Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, the Analects of Confucius, the Chuang Tzu, and the Mencius—presented in o...

A dazzling novel about the inextricable link between the personal and the political set against the decadence of Hollywood and postwar Los AngelesA...

A dazzling novel about the inextricable link between the personal and the political set against the decadence of Hollywood and postwar Los AngelesA...

Gary Snyder has been a major cultural force in America for five decades—prize–winning poet, environmental activist, Zen Buddhist, earth–householder...

"The book is informed by the Vietnamese immigrations of the nineteen–seventies but is filled with social observation of contemporary middle–class c...

The essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the...

In her author's note, Marion Winik writes that in Mexico on the Day of the Dead, "people build altars to their loved ones . . . they go to the ceme...

From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia, to the sophisticated typographical ...

In the fall of 1911, Alexandre Lautens, an ambitious French philologist, sweeps into a remote part of India to study the Telugu language. Hosted by...

The largest creatures ever to inhabit the Earth, whales have long inspired awe in humans. But because they spend virtually all of their time beneat...

What motivated Sodo–san to spend the last twenty years of his life in a “temple under the sky”— a corner of a public park where he taught passersby...

For the full course of his remarkable career, Gary Snyder has continued his study of Eastern culture and philosophies. From the Ainu to the Mongols...

“One of the best true crime books of all time.” —Time As seen on Investigation Discovery’s The Grim Sleeper: Mind of a Monster The inside story of ...

A group of childhood friends reunites after tragedy strikes one of their own in this “riveting portrayal of the joys and mysteries of growing up, a...