Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one...

Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov: Part 1 is the first book in a major new three-volume series made unique by the fact that it will record the greatest chess battles played by the greatest chessplayer of all-time. The series in itself is a continuation of...

NPR's Favorite Books of 2019Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining...

In recognition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection, including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself.“A writer who never seems...

An erudite and witty collection of Umberto Eco's essays on mass culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces which have not been translated into English before. The discussion is framed by opposing characterizations of current...

The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of "One Flew Over the Cuckooas Nest" Following the astonishing success of his first novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckooas Nest," Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls aone of the few essential books...

A sharp and entertaining essay collection about the importance of multiple forms of love and friendship in a world designed for couples, from a laser-precise new voice.Sometimes it seems like there are two American creeds, self-reliance and marriage, and...

“A fine book, a rich, achingly painful story that is made for all of us who have ever felt a hunger for the mountains. Few books have so accurately described the way stony heights can define one's sense of joy and rightness. And it is an exquisite...

Hardcover. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. First edition (3,000 printed). Quarto, ~9 ¾” w x 12” h, 148pp. Beige cloth, brown dust jacket with painting, illustrated flyleaves. Jacket intact with moderate scuffing and edge wear; light...

An analysis of antisemitism since 1945, focusing on the Arab-Israeli conflict and differentiating between political opposition to Israel and antisemitic anti-Zionism. Surveys modern Jewish history, including the origins of the terms "semites" and...

The correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers begins in 1926, when the twenty-year-old Arendt studied philosophy with Jaspers in Heidelberg. It is interrupted by Arendt's emigration and Jaspers's "inner emigration, " and it is resumed...

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