1088 results for '"FRANK,A"'

Michael Auping, one of America's foremost curators of contemporary art, explores process and technique through conversations he has had over the past four decades with the most significant artists...

The first novel by Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack—a thrilling work of autobiographical fiction that captures with inspired detail a life driven by adventure, drugs, far-flung travel, and like her...

"[S]o good that almost any novel you read immediately after it will seem at least a little bit posturing." —Jonathan FranzenNo James Purdy novel has dazzled contemporary writers more than this...

Sitting on a bench one day, four-year-old Kim Deitch is accosted by an elderly man. Flask in hand, the man exclaims, "Is it possible? Sid! SID PINCUS! Good God, man! You've changed!" A lightbulb goes...

Queerness remains one of the most stigmatized and overlooked aspects of Holocaust history, often erased due to the lingering homophobia of survivors. People Without History Are Dust challenges this...

In Nairobi, slick advertising has made few inroads, and shopping malls and supermarkets remain a rarity. People buy their daily necessities locally, from small traders within their communities...

Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writersFredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radically questions standard leftist notions of what...

What is honor? Is it the same as reputation? Or is it rather a sentiment? Is it a character trait, like integrity? Or is it simply a concept too vague or incoherent to be fully analyzed? In the...

The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works."Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. "The medium of poetry is the...

“An absolutely mesmerizing read. . . . Tana French is simply this: a truly great writer.” —Gillian FlynnRead the New York Times bestseller by Tana French, author of the The Hunter and “the most...

Liberate yourself from the limitations and judgments imposed by your inner critic, and develop "soul qualities" to experience freedom and vitality Whether we call it the inner critic or the...

A cut-through-the-crap guide to quitting the self-destructive habits that undermine happiness and successHow to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t is a straight-shooting self-improvement guide for women, one...

Featuring thirty-five outstanding abstract paintings made between 1950 and 1975 from the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, this fascinating book casts a new glance at a renowned...

This long, complex poem, modeled on the Watts Tower, a Los Angeles folk architecture masterpiece, is the first Living Batch Press drive, he said book—a series honoring Robert Creeley's "I Know a Man...

From Ivana Lowell, a member of the Guinness family and Executive Producer of 'House of Guinness' on Netflix, comes "a frank and, at times, comic account of growing up amid extreme privilege and...

An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance, "More fun than you've ever had with taxonomy in your...

Set against the romance of revolution and the terror of a military coup, this arresting mystery is also a reckoning with the callousness of U.S. foreign policy.   In 1972 two idealistic young...

A landmark work that marks the beginning of Jung’s divergence from the psychoanalytical school of FreudPsychology of the Unconscious is a key text for understanding the formation of Jung’s ideas and...

All hail, the reigning vegan queen is back! Bestselling vegan author Isa Chandra Moskowitz shows readers how to get a plant-based meal on the table in just under 30 minutes. If you avoid cooking...

In the years after World War II, Georgetown’s leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors who helped shape American strategy. This coterie of affluent, well-educated, and connected...