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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A hugely ambitious, “delightfully readable, genuinely informative” portrait (The New York Times) of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and...

"Breathtakingly successful." —Michael Dirda, Washington Post A bold and dynamic retelling of five great male-female pairings from the Greek myths: Prometheus and Pandora, Jason and Medea, Oedipus...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - A hugely ambitious, "delightfully readable, genuinely informative" portrait (The New York Times) of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and...

Gore Vidal has hailed John Rechy as "one of the few original American writers of the last century," and Michael Cunningham has called him an author "whose life is almost as interesting, and...

In our current age of cynicism, John McGowan suggests that the time is right to take a fresh look at pragmatism, the philosophy of American democracy. As McGowan shows, pragmatism can be an inspiring...

In this classic text, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty...

Keeping the Faith is an ambitous and accessible history of the nation's highest court. John E. Semonche demonstrates that the fabric of American constitutional law promotes in citizens a 'civil...

BESTSELLER #1 DEL NEW YORK TIMES * "El maestro del thriller legal" (Associated Press) se une al "padrino del movimiento de la inocencia" (Texas Monthly) para compartir diez desgarradoras historias...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “paradigm-influencing” book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America. Jesus and John Wayne is a...

Saving the planet is big business.Realising this, savvy companies are hopping on the sustainability bandwagon. Some may have altruistic ends in mind, but most want to make a quick buck. As ethical...

Pt. 1 -- 1. The Argentinian -- 2. The Metaphysician -- Pt. 2 -- 1. Isolation -- 2. Inspiration -- 3. Idealization -- Pt. Iii -- 1. Concepts And Circumstances -- 2. Replicas And Reductions -- 3...

From New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi, comes The Last Colony, the third book in the Old Man's War series, now for the first time in trade paperback with a new introduction by the author...

This brilliant new work by the author of the best-selling Five Days in London, May 1940 is an unparalleled drama of two great leaders confronting each other in June 1941. It describes Hitler and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“We should aspire to Colapinto's stellar journalist example: listening carefully to the circumstances of those who are different rather than demanding that they conform to...

John Guillory considers close reading within the larger history of reading and writing as cultural techniques. At a time of debate about the future of "English" as a discipline and the fundamental...

The never-before-published poems of one of the greatest American poets, John Berryman. John Berryman’s Dream Songs are arguably the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an...

From "one of the best authors of espionage fiction" (Wall Street Journal), a book of deception and money to be made amid the rubble of World War II From an author whose books have been described as...

"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...

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...

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,”...