*A New Yorker and Vogue Best Book of 2023*“Compelling... [McPhee] positions herself neither as victim nor saint but as someone who, she says, only wants to be good.” —The Washington PostA moving memoir from an award-winning novelist—a riveting account of...

An expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker’s life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of the “fascinating” (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz.The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows of her time in...

Walter Isaacson’s Einstein meets Craig Brown’s 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this engaging and innovative biography of the famous physicist told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes.Most of us would agree that Albert Einstein’s name is synonymous...

Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the mutual attractions—and mutual antagonisms—of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny,...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Three Dog Life, a witty and irreverent look at aging and the writing life, delivered with trademark brevity, humor, and wise wit.“The Emily Dickinson of memoirists” (Stephen King) Abigail Thomas shares her...

"[Arrangements in Blue] reflects on a life spent as a single woman and how that affects friendships, freedom, domesticity, family, sexuality, the psyche, the self. It observes things about being alone that I have never seen or heard articulated before......

“Brim[s] with wit, pluck, and hard-won wisdom.” ―Jessica Bruder, best-selling author of NomadlandThe best-selling author of The Long Haul returns with the story of ditching his truck to seek his fortune…in hemp.After decades as a long-haul trucker, Finn...

"You don't want the book to end; it glows with compassion and you want more, more because you know this is a fine wine of a life, richer as it ages."―Frank McCourt, author of Angela's AshesOne of nine children born into a penniless North Dublin family,...

An in-depth biography of the socialite, political hostess, crusading feminist and United States envoy to Luxembourg, Perle Mesta, from New York Times bestselling author Meryl Gordon.Perle Mesta was a force to be reckoned with. In her heyday – the 1940’s,...

Miss May Does Not Exist, by Carrie Courogen is the riveting biography of comedian, director, actor and writer Elaine May, one of America’s greatest comic geniuses. May began her career as one-half of the legendary comedy team known as Nichols and May,...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceThe first comprehensive biography of the most influential, controversial, and celebrated Palestinian intellectual of the twentieth century.Both controversial and beloved, Edward Said was the pioneer of...

The story of one of the century's great sculptors concentrates on Moore's own reflections and memories, as well as on those of his friends and colleagues, and discusses his victory over the public outrage that plagued his early work

No one has been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels, starting with A Boy's Own Story, White here takes fiction out of his story and delivers the...

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A Washington Post Best Book of the YearThe dramatic story of a South Carolina heiress who joined the OSS and became the first American woman in uniform taken prisoner on the Western front—until her escape from Nazi Germany.Gertrude “Gertie” Legendre was...

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and...

A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years.An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies—those by Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZENamed one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORKER • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ATLANTIC • NPR • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LITHUB"Fascinating...The great strength of this memoir is its voracious, humble curiosity." - The...