Traces four generations of Russian family life--and the very course of modern Soviet history--through a portrait of the Dovlatov clan

From the acclaimed author of Dreaming in Cuban, a follow-up novel that tracks four generations of the del Pino family against the tumultuous backdrops of Cuba, the U.S., Germany, and Russia in the new millennium "A beautiful novel: hilarious one moment,...

The history, rituals and world-changing properties of ten spiritsIncludes cocktail recipesWritten by London bartender and poet Seki Lynch, with original illustrations by Tom MaryniakWalk into any bar, in almost any part of the world, and there, on the...

The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela about an embattled young woman's coming of age during the Mahdist War in 19th century Sudan. Leila Aboulela, hailed as "a versatile prose stylist" (New...

New perspectives from leading scholars on a defining age in American Jewish historyThe thematic essays in Yearning to Breathe Free each use a primary source—a book, newspaper, tract, or artwork—as an entry point into Gilded Age America and as a means to...

An incisive portrait of how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and careWhen #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black...

“The best book to explain the world J. D. Vance came from is Max Fraser’s Hillbilly Highway.”—Jessica Wilkerson, author of To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social JusticeOver the first two-thirds of the twentieth...

The uses of shame (and shamelessness) in spheres that range from social media and consumerism to polarized politics and mass violenceToday, we are caught in a shame spiral—a vortex of mutual shaming that pervades everything from politics to social media...

An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today’s world, creating both opportunity and peril—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and author of the New...

"Vintage Stoppard in its intelligence and wit." --Variety It is 1936, and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last--yet his memories are dramatically alive. Confronting his younger self from the vantage of death,...

A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature, with an introduction...

In her extraordinary first cookbook, Andrea Gentl brings to her subject equal parts knowledge and technique, along with a unique passion and sensibility. From sprinkling adaptogenic powder over granola to reinventing schnitzel with king trumpets, Cooking...

Other people kill their husbands. Not her."A darkly clever thriller about women's thwarted ambitions, celebrity, the Time's Up movement and revenge."--People (Book of the Week)In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged...

"Flaherty writes with stealthy acuity, his prose seemingly simple yet full of coiled power. . . . Multiple hauntings emerge in 'The Dredge, ' and you'll be contemplating them after the last page."--Sarah Weinman, The New York Times In Brendan Flaherty's...

Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America's history. For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed the diminishment of the White...

For Russians, St. Petersburg has embodied power, heroism, and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope to become. Opulence and artistic brilliance blended with images of suffering on a monumental scale make up...

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, the early days of Saturday Night Live, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture "They're not going to catch us," Dan...

Finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Translation From the acclaimed author of The Black Minutes and Don't Send Flowers, How to Draw a Novel is an ingenious and visually stimulating exploration of narrative and craft from master storyteller and...

Check into a storied Nantucket hotel for a summer of scandal in this immensely satisfying page turner from "the queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine) and #1 New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand. Fresh off a bad breakup with a...

Articles from the early Soviet press on social and cultural issues in the struggle to forge new socialist women and men.