N/A, September 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary. Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves... More about Meaning of Everything : The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Cornell University Press, December 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Raymond Roussel, one of the most outlandishly compelling literary figures of modern times, died in mysterious circumstances at the age of fifty-six in 1933. The story Mark Ford tells about Roussel's life and work is at once captivating, heartbreaking, and almost beyond... More about Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams
Grove Press, August 2019. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSLLER A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house... More about The Yellow House: A Memoir
Berkley, December 1985. Trade Paperback. More about Pale Fire
Chronicle Books (CA), April 1994. Oversize Softcover. The American paperback went through a brief but gloriously subversive era during the 1940s and '50s when publishers wooed post-World War II veterans with cheap, pocket-sized paperbacks sporting lurid covers and shocking titles. But this era also spawned such great writers as Mickey... More about Over My Dead Body
Harry N. Abrams, February 1997. Hardcover. This is an examination of the remarkable legacy of Charles M. Conlon who took thousands of photographs of the baseball heroes of his day, including stars such as Cy Young, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Christy Mathewson, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Honus Wagner, Home Run Baker, Ty... More about Baseball's Golden Age: The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon
Random House, November 2012. Hardcover. When the multitalented biographer Edmund Morris (who writes with equal virtuosity about Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Beethoven, and Thomas Edison) was a schoolboy in colonial Kenya, one of his teachers told him, "You have the most precious gift of all--originality." That quality is abundantly evident... More about This Living Hand: And Other Essays
Gallery Books, July 2019. Hardcover. Sex and the City meets Catch Me if You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delvey, a young con artist posing as a German heiress in New York City--as told by the former Vanity Fair photo editor who got seduced by her friendship... More about My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress
The MIT Press, March 2018. Trade Paperback. The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface. What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to entire libraries? The codex, the... More about The Book (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
University Press of Mississippi, April 1990. Trade Paperback. "Literary journalist," "lowly social historian," "chronicler of his times," and "champion of realism" are among the many epithets heaped upon Tom Wolfe by himself and his myriad admirers and critics. In this collection of interviews spanning his richly productive career, Wolfe is... More about Conversations with Tom Wolfe (Literary Conversations Series
Beacon Press, September 2019. Hardcover. Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world. Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see... More about Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
Vintage, September 2019. Paper Back. Much has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking Sexual Personae, but the laser-sharp insights of this major American thinker continue to be ahead of the curve--not only capturing the tone of the moment but also often anticipating it. Opening... More about Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education
NYRB Classics, September 2019. Paper Back. Available for the first time in English, a moving prison correspondence between a husband and wife who resisted the Nazis. Tegel prison, Berlin, in the fall of 1944. Helmuth James von Moltke is awaiting trial for his leading role in the Kreisau Circle, one... More about Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke, 1944-45 (New...
Beacon Press, September 2019. Paper Back. Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 A revealing portrait of one of the most... More about Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Amistad Press, September 2019. Hardcover. "Powerful memoir. . .Ford's thought-provoking narrative tells the story of African-American pride and perseverance." -Publisher's Weekly (Starred) "A masterful storyteller, Ford interweaves his personal story with the backdrop of the social movements unfolding at that time, providing a revealing insider's view of the tech industry... More about Think Black: A Memoir
Ecco, September 2019. Hardcover. One of the New York Times' 17 New Books to Watch For in September One of the Washington Post's Ten Books to Read this September One of O magazine's 18 Must-Read Books of Fall 2019 The definitive portrait of one of the American Century's most towering... More about Sontag: Her Life and Work
NYRB Classics, September 2010. Trade Paperback. The Road brings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of Life and Fate, providing new insight into the life and work of this extraordinary writer. The stories range from Grossman's first success, "In the Town of Berdichev," a.... More about The Road: Stories, Journalism, and Essays (New York Review Books Classics
New York Review of Books, September 2008. Trade Paperback. The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one... More about The Liberal Imagination
NYRB Classics, March 2005. Paper Back. War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death. Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force is... More about War and the Iliad
