Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Bantam, 1975. Mass Market PaperBack. More
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Cat Among the Pigeons
Fontana, 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Harper Wave, June 2021. Hardcover. The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes "cults" so intriguing and frightening? What makes them..... More
No Gods, No Monsters
Blackstone Publishing, September 2021. Hardcover. The captivating first novel in The Convergence Saga by Cadwell Turnbull, the award-winning author of The Lesson An Indie Next Pick A LibraryReads Pick Named A Most Anticipated Book by Bustle, Buzzfeed, Forbes, GoodReads, Marie Claire, The Millions, and Tor.com Profound and unsettling in the..... More
Tasha: A Son's Memoir
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, April 2022. Hardcover. "Addictive...Tasha stands as both a cri de coeur and vibrant testament--the painstaking, brave, generous piecing-together of a wildly difficult puzzle." --The Washington Post In the spirit of Fierce Attachments, Bettyville, and The End of Your Life Book Club, acclaimed novelist..... More
Foundling
Scribner / Marysue Rucci Books, May 2022. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House, the story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test when they meet years later at a controversial institution--one as an employee; the..... More
Paradais
New Directions, May 2022. Hardcover. Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor--an attractive married woman and mother--while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated..... More
Time Shelter: A Novel
Liveright, May 2022. Hardcover. "At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October..... More
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2022. Hardcover. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve deployed an extraordinary range of policy tools that helped prevent the collapse of the financial system and the U.S. economy. Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues lent directly to U.S. businesses, purchased trillions..... More
Best Barbarian: Poems
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2022. Hardcover. The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf's Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border to thinking through the fraught beauty of the moon on a summer night..... More
Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2021. Hardcover. For thousands of years, the eastern Mediterranean has stood as a meeting point between East and West, bringing cultures and cuisines through trade, commerce, and migration. Traveling by boat and land, Yasmin Khan traces the ingredients that have spread through the region..... More
Activities of Daily Living: A Novel
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2022. Hardcover. How do we take stock of a life--by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her late thirties. In the off-hours from her day job, Alice struggles to create a project about..... More
Box Hill: A Story of Low Self-Esteem
New Directions Publishing Corporation, September 2020. Paper Back. In Box Hill, a vivid coming-of-age novel, a young man suddenly wakes up to his gay self--on his eighteenth birthday, when he receives the best gift ever: love and sex. In the woodsy cruising grounds of Box Hill, chubby Colin literally stumbles..... More
No Longer Human
New Directions Publishing Corporation, June 1973. Paper Back. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early..... More
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2022. Paper Back. In the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard's life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the Dean of American Cookery to give voice to the..... More
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
Liveright Publishing Corporation, June 2019. Paper Back. Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June..... More
Nightwood
New Directions, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch (Times Literary Supplement). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent..... More
Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2022. Hardcover. We are living in a new urban age, and its most tangible expression is the "supertall" megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. Cities around the world are racing to build the first mile-high building, stretching..... More
On Juneteenth
Liveright, May 2021. Hardcover. Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from..... More
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2020. Paper Back. Self-described black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and..... More
Then Comes Marriage: How Two Women Fought for and Won Equal Dignity for All
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2016. Paper Back. Renowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer had been together as a couple, in sickness and in health, for..... More
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
New Directions, May 2022. Paper Back. Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual..... More
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
Tin House Books, January 2021. Paper Back. How do you tell the real story of someone misremembered--an icon and idol--alongside your own? Jenn Shapland's celebrated debut is both question and answer: an immersive, surprising exploration of one of America's most beloved writers, alongside a genre-defying examination of identity, queerness, memory..... More
Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2022. Hardcover. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy..... More
