1037 results for '"NEW YORKER"'

An exemplary collection of work from one of the world’s leading scholars of intellectual history“Földényi . . . stage[s] a broad metaphysical melodrama between opposites that he pursues throughout...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “One of Iran's most important living fiction writers” (The Guardian) shows what it’s like to live and love there today."A haunting portrait of life in the Islamic...

An irresistible hardcover collection of the famous humorist’s poems that range from lighthearted satire to gleeful dark comedyOne of the Jazz Age’s most beloved poets, Dorothy Parker earned her...

A polemic against love that is “engagingly acerbic ... extremely funny.... A deft indictment of the marital ideal, as well as a celebration of the dissent that constitutes adultery, delivered in...

A surprising and revealing look at how today’s elite view their wealth and place in societyFrom TV’s “real housewives” to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as...

In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson—a renowned artist who regularly produced covers for The New Yorker, a gifted musician, a skilled amateur pilot, and a joyful presence to...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything, a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times. As Anne Lamott knows,...

""Enjoy 120 colorful sketches that remind even the most jaded New Yorkers to notice the city's simple beauties. Ria Sim, the creator of the popular Instagram account @coffeecakescafe, might be New...

This scathing “comedy of manners” set in the 1940s “steers us through the lives of women who come to New York . . . for love, money, opportunity, and a good time” (New York Times).At the center of...

An absorbing, novelistic, and powerfully affecting work of history and investigative journalism that tracks the unraveling of American democracy. In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative...

“Nothing short of astonishing.” — New Yorker“A thing of beauty—lucidly written, artfully ordered, riddled with riddles and undergirded with dark layers of philosophical meditations.” — Los Angeles...

New Yorker, “The Best Books of 2023”Italy’s great chronicler of the macabre and of growing up geeky. Long before the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy’s most beloved authors,...

"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece."  —The New Yorker"Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods."...

“If the phrase ‘woman of letters’ existed, [Joyce Carol Oates] would be, foremost in this country, entitled to it.”—John Updike, The New YorkerAs powerful and relevant today as it was on its initial...

In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent...

The epic story and ultimate big history of how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating speciesIf a chimpanzee ventures into the...

The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of...

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist...

The true story of a cross-generational, beyond-the-grave and beyond-the-scale friendship that led to the first breakthrough Marisa Meltzer ever had in her quest for self-improvement.Marisa Meltzer...

A USA Today Bestseller With an exclusive new introduction and some never-before-published pieces, a collection of greatest hits from one of the most beloved comedians of our time, Steve Martin,...