Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, Gail Sheehy - Lessons from Two Lives
Gail Sheehy, the author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with Daring: My Passages: A Memoir — an inspirational...
View ArticleP.J. O’Rourke in Conversation with Morgan Entrekin
P.J. O’Rourke’s The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It Wasn’t My Fault...And I’ll Never Do It Again is at once a social history, a group...
View ArticleChris Hedges on The Wages of Rebellion
In Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt, Chris Hedges investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution, rebellion,...
View ArticleNew Fiction: A Reading - Elizabeth McCracken, Mary Gaitskill, Rick Moody
Former National Book Award Finalist Elizabeth McCracken’s first story collection in twenty years is Thunderstruck & Other Stories. From Mary...
View ArticleNew Fiction from Joyce Carol Oates
The Lost Landscape is literary master Joyce Carol Oates’ vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State.
View ArticleDepression and Anxiety, Examined. Scott Stossel, Andrew Solomon
Drawing on his own longstanding battle with anxiety, Scott Stossel presents a moving and revelatory account of a condition that affects some 40...
View ArticleTrue Tales of Three Cities - Juliana Barbassa, David Maraniss
Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink is a biography of the seductive and chaotic city of Rio de Janeiro from prizewinning...
View ArticleJesse Eisenberg & Kunal Nayyar
Academy Award-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg's first collection of stories Bream Gives Me Hiccups, throws the reader into a universe of social...
View ArticleLiving Mindfully, Eating Nobly - Tracey Stewart, Gene Baur
In Do Unto Animals: A Friendly Guide to How Animals Live, and How We Can Make Their Lives Better, Tracey Stewart provides insight into the secret...
View ArticleAntony Beevor, Gerald Posner - The World Over: History and Politics
Gerald Posner’s God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican traces the political intrigue and inner workings of the Catholic Church....
View ArticleSonia Manzano and Edwidge Danticat: A Conversation
In Edwidge Danticat ’s novel, Untwine, a woman wakes in a hospital, injured and unable to speak or move, and revisits her past in order to...
View ArticleNell Zink, Sloane Crosley, Lauren Groff - Family Stories in Fiction
Part comedy of manners, part treasure hunt, The Clasp is the first novel from Sloane Crosley , the writer whom David Sedaris...
View ArticleNew Fiction: A Reading - Jim Shepard
In Jim Shepard’s newest book The Book of Aron: A Novel, an engaging, if peculiar, and unhappy young boy and his family are driven by the German onslaught...
View ArticleKay Ryan, Juan Felipe Herrera with Campbell McGrath Two U.S. Poets Laureate:...
In Erratic Facts, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Kay Ryan examines enormous subjects — existence,...
View ArticleTwo Trailblazers in Music - Doctor Dread, Luther Campbell
Doctor Dread, one of Jamaican music’s most colorful characters takes readers on a Rasta ride, in The Half That’s Never Been Told: The Real-Life...
View ArticleAlan M. Dershowitz - On Abraham and Other Lawyers
One of the world’s best-known attorneys, Alan M. Dershowitz, gives a no-holds-barred history of Jewish lawyers, from the biblical Abraham through modern-day advocates who...
View ArticleRace in America, in Fiction and Nonfiction - Joy-Ann Reid, Leonard Pitts
In Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide, MSNBC national correspondent Joy-Ann Reid shows that, despite the progress we have...
View ArticleAdam Johnson, Padgett Powell, Kelly Link - Short Stories, Tall Tales
Adam Johnson follows his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master’s Son with a story collection, Fortune Smiles. In Padgett Powell’s new...
View ArticleRosie Perez & John Leguizamo - American Lives: Two Memoirs
Actress and choreographer Rosie Perez’s memoir Handbook for an UnpredictableLife: How I survived Sister Renata, My Crazy Mother and Still Came Out Smiling with Great Hair! recounts her rise to success...
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