As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
A new volume of the writer and thinker's journals reveals a mind bent on relentless self-interrogation.
Read more...Canada
A robbery gone wrong sends a child into exile in a story that recalls the work of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.
Read more...My Struggle: Book One
The first volume in the memoir of a "narrative wizard" confronts the author's contentious relationship with his father.
Read more...Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
A study of the most attention-getting of body parts reveals an organ as mysterious as it is vital.
Read more...Home
The Nobel laureate's new novel addresses familiar themes in the story of a soldier's homecoming.
Read more...Pearls of the Czech New Wave
For a brief period in the 1960s, unprecedented cinematic freedom and innovation flourished in Czechoslovakia.
Read more...Beastly Things
Butchery of more than one kind is at the heart of Commissario Guido Brunetti's latest case.
Read more...The Drowned Cities
The author returns to the world of Ship Breaker, and a young woman's encounter with the dogs of war.
Read more...Rez Life
A memoir of life on Ojibwe reservation is both a portrait of a vanishing world and a look at why it's disappearing.
Read more...Honky Tonk Girl: My Life in Lyrics
A new collection showcases the songwriting talents of the coal miner's daughter and feminist pioneer.
Read more...More Powerful Than Dynamite
A hundred years before Occupy Wall Street, a movement aimed at the structures of power seemed ready to explode.
Read more...Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance
How John Singer Sargent captured the dawn of a new century in his portrait of two New Yorkers.
Read more...A Difficult Woman
A life of playwright and gadfly Lillian Hellman suggests that her reputation in large part turns on her gender.
Read more...The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume Four
From Senate majority leader to vice president to president, Lyndon Johnson's political metamorphosis during the years between 1958 and 1964 is captured in this masterpiece of historical biography.
Read more...When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Farther Away
The novelist's essays take on the dangers of a networked world -- and the grief and anger left behind after a friend's death.
Read more...Useless Landscape: A Guide for Boys
A California haunted by death and suffused with sex is the subject of D. A. Powell's biting collection of verse.
Read more...The Mark Inside
In the golden age of the Big Con, the wires and rails that knit American cities made a perfect web.
Read more...Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
The author's latest experiment with himself is a whirlwind journey through a thousand fitness regimens.
Read more...A Slave in the White House
Though he deplored slavery, James Madison owned slaves. A new book examines the Founding Father's contradictory conduct.
Read more...Swim: Why We Love the Water
Why do we love the water? A journalist and swimming enthusiast dives into the question.
Read more...Schmidt Steps Back
The author of About Schmidt brings his aging hero back to confront the prospect of a last chance at love.
Read more...The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin
A new collection of Philip Larkin's verse attempts to capture the acerbic poet's work in toto.
Read more...Satantango
Thomas Hart Benton
A biography of the artist whose work, "as rich and dynamic as it may be, is not as paradoxical as the man was."
Read more...The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story
When a job at a French ad agency landed in his lap, novelist Rosecrans Baldwin had the chance to fulfill a lifelong dream of living la vie Parisienne. And though cold réalité intruded -- in the form of financial struggles and the limits of his rudimentary Français -- the result was a more mature take on the city of his fantasies, flaws included.
The feline acrobatics and other mysteries of everyday physics that Mark Levi explores in this charming book are just the beginning. A fun and enlightening workout for your gray matter.
Scott's doomed Antartic expedition and the haunting mysteries surrounding its failure lead to obsession in Richard Pierce's debut novel. As painter Birdie Bowers pursues her fascination with the explorer and his death, she risks both her body and her heart for answers.
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