927 results for '"Claybourne, Anna'

A new translation of the best and most provocative short stories by the author of Transit and The Seventh Cross.Best known for the anti-fascist novel The Seventh Cross and the existential...

A New York Times Editors' Choice, A Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, An Indie Next Pick, An Amazon Best Book of the Month (Literature & Fiction) "Lucid, sensual . . . If the...

Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout...

The darkly comic second novel from the author of the Man Booker Prize winner Milkman, now available in the United StatesIn the small town of Tiptoe Floorboard, the Doe clan, a close-knit family of...

A raw, sweeping debut collection that interrogates the limits of the human animal and confronts the boundary between fear and freedom. The startling English-language debut of Swedish polymath Anna...

The story of how a chemical weapon went from the battlefield to the streets More than a hundred years ago, French troops fired the first tear gas grenades at the German enemy. Designed to force...

Francisco de Goya was one of the most innovative peintre-graveurs of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, his etchings and lithographs masterpieces of modern printmaking. Trained in Spain and...

For fans of Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Amy Schumer—and every other “funny woman”—comes a candid feminist comedy manifesto exploring the sisterhood between women’s comedy and women’s liberation.“I’m not...

An illustrated examination of one of Hirschhorn's “precarious” monuments, now dismantled.Part-text, part-sculpture, part-architecture, part-junk heap, Thomas Hirschhorn's often monumental but...

The fourth volume of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is devoted to essays in honor of Professor John Ackrill on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Contributors include: David Wiggins, Colin...

This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this clarion call to pick up a pen and find yourself from “one of our most astute chroniclers of modern life” (The New York Times Book Review), #1 New York Times bestselling...

Are sex scandals simply trivial distractions from serious issues or can they help democratize politics? In 1820, George IV's "royal gambols" with his mistresses endangered the Old Oak of the...

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST SELECTION"McLemore captures the spirit of the original while adding nuance and depth, setting a new bar for what a great retelling can be." —Booklist, starred reviewTwo...

"A charming and delectably sweet debut. Mischief, friendship, and a whole lot of heart—Love Sugar Magic has it all." —Zoraida Córdova, award-winning author of the Brooklyn Brujas series.Leonora...

A feminist paean to perversity: on remaking intimacy outside the Republic of Gender.Seasonal begins writing sentences and thinking thoughts they never thought possible. They want to give László the...

“Bog Queen sparkles like unearthed treasure.” -Kaliane BradleyThe latest from New York Times bestselling novelist Anna North-a monumental discovery sets off a clash of worlds, past and present, over...

In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism...

Co-Winner of the Senior Book Prize, American Ethnological SocietyWhat the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two...

From the host of the popular WNYC podcast Death, Sex, & Money, Let’s Talk About Hard Things is “like a good conversation with a friend” (The New Yorker) where “no topic is off-limits when it comes to...