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"With The Assault on Tony's, John O'Brien's curiously distinctive combination of tone and subject matter - an unapologetic, unsentimental, and at times exuberant examination of the grittier side of...

WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD  By the Author of Stoner In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took  on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome,...

New York Times Book Review Top 100 Books of 2024Explore the “comprehensive and compelling” (Jon Meacham) biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, celebrated as “the conscience of Congress,”...

This revised edition of John E. Smith s classic details the phenomenal growth in American philosophy in the years since the book first appeared. Through the addition of a new chapter and the...

From “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman, a reissue of the revered trilogy that launched his career—two novels and story collection all set in Wideman’s own hometown...

This brilliant and insightful contribution to cultural studies investigates the role of literature—particularly the novel—and visual arts in the development of institutions. Arguing the attitudes...

"John Banville is one of my favorite writers alive, and I pick up his books whenever I need a reminder how to write a good sentence." --R.F. Kuang Booker Prize winner and "Irish master" (New Yorker)...

Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; all were to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in this...

The Pride of the Bimbos is John Sayles's outrageous, poignant and hilarious first novel, about a circus sideshow softball team—The Brooklyn Bimbos—who play in drag at scraggly small towns across the...

John Irving, one of the world’s greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years—a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel...

Miles is a difficult dog, until he gets his own car. . . . From picture book master John Burningham comes a delightful new story.Miles does not come when he is called. He does not like going for...

John Huston's Filmmaking offers an analysis of the life and work of one of the greatest American independent filmmakers. Always visually exciting, Huston's films sensitively portray humankind in all...

A wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the place and power of colour in life and art by John Gage, author of the award-winning Colour and Culture. The complex phenomenon of colour has received...

A fascinating exploration of the symbolic foundations of the Western magical tradition.Using the Cabalistic Tree of Life and the tarot deck, this book takes the foundations of Western esoteric...

This is the only short study in English to survey Germany's foreign policy from a German viewpoint across the entire inter-war period. The approach, which sets Germany in her full European context,...

Collected for the first time, the New York stories of John O'Hara, "among the greatest short story writers in English, or in any other language" (Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker) Collected for...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller * An Instant Indie Bestseller * An Indie Next List Selection Feeling fried Peel yourself on the couch and meet your new pal-tato! The winning fourth picture...

Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the...

Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times' Dwight Garner. Winner of the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award.“The first comprehensive biography...

John Lewis Gaddis' acclaimed history of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II is now available with a new preface by the author. This book moves beyond the...